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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 531

Munich Games

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, died on Wednesday at age 68 (photo credit: Michal Fattal/Flash90)
December 19, 2012, 10:22 pm
The unflappable commander: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak’s battle in Beirut
Under fire in the Lebanese capital in 1973, with one man dead and another dying, the IDF chief who passed away on Wednesday nonetheless completed his mission — and won the second of ‘the medals they give you when something’s gone wrong’
By Mitch Ginsburg
The Olympic Stadium in London. NBC sportscaster Bob Castas will memorialize the athletes murdered in Munich in 1972 when the Israeli team enters the stadium during the opening ceremony on July 27th. (photo credit: CC BY, James Mitchell,Flickr)
July 19, 2012, 10:51 pm
NBC sportscaster to mark Munich 11
Bob Costas intends to point out rejection of minute of silence in memory of murdered athletes when Israeli team enters the Olympic stadium
By Stuart Winer
Israeli Ankie Spitzer, widow of the Israeli Olympic fencing coach Andrei Spitzer killed by Palestinian gunmen at the 1972 Munich Olympics, talks to the media during a news conference ahead of the 2012 Summer Olympics, in July (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 13, 2012, 6:52 pm
Ankie Spitzer’s 40-year quest for Olympic justice
Her husband, Israel’s fencing coach, was murdered at the Olympics, as an Olympian. His widow will never relent until the Olympic authorities commemorate him and Israel’s 10 other Munich 1972 massacre victims within the Olympic framework. In London this month, anti-Semitism and greed, she says, will continue to thwart that moral obligation
By Mitch Ginsburg
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