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• Spitzer, Andre    b. 1945  d. September 6, 1972
  Olymipian. Terror Victim. A fencing referee for the 1972 Israeli Olympic Team, he was one of 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage by the Palestine Liberation Organization at the 1972 Munich Olympic games. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
  Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
   
• Springer, Yakov    b. 1921  d. September 6, 1972
  Olympic Athlete. A coach of the 1972 Israeli weightlifting Olympic team, he was one of 11 Israeli athletes who were held hostage and murdered in Munich by Palestinian terrorists. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
  Holon South Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
   
• Weinberg, Moshe   b. 1939  d. September 5, 1972
  Olympic Athlete. A coach for the 1972 Israeli weightlifting Olympic team, he was one of 11 Israeli athletes who were held hostage and murdered in Munich by Palestinian terrorists. He was killed as he attempted to fight off the attackers. (Bio by: Erik Lander)
  Holon South Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
   
• Wiesenthal, Simon    b. December 31, 1908  d. September 20, 2005
  Social Reformer. A Holocaust survivor, he was called the "Conscience of the Holocaust," and was a pioneer against anti-semitism. Best known for his role in locating Adolf Eichmann, the one-time SS leader who organized the extermination of 6 million Jews, in Argentina and was abducted by Israeli agent Peter...[Read More] (Bio by: Fred Beisser)
  Herzilya Cemetery, Herzilya, Tel Aviv District, Israel
   
• Yarkoni, Yaffa   b. December 25, 1925  d. January 1, 2012
  Singer. Called the "War Singer", she shall be remembered for literally countless performances for Israeli military troops. Born Yaffa Abramov at Giv'at Rambam in what was then British Palestine, she studied ballet as a young girl and married for the first time in her teens though her husband was to be killed during 1945 combat in Italy. Yaffa wed Shaike Yarkoni in 1948 and during that same year's War of Independence joined an Israel Defense Forces song troupe. In the late 1940s she had success...[Read More] (Bio by: Bob Hufford)
  Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
   
• Yonatan (Klein), Natan    b. September 20, 1923  d. March 12, 2004
  Israeli Poet. Best known for "That Man," an ode to assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that was set to music in 1995 and widely played. He wrote 20 books of poetry that have been translated into several languages. He died near Tel Aviv at the age of 81. (Bio by: Always with Love)
  Kiryat Shaul Cemetery, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv District, Israel
   

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