Andrei Spitzer News Today

The commission’s creation stems in part from an agreement made last year to reassess German failures in handling the attack by Palestinian militants, which killed 11 Israeli athletes.

While fencing used to be a sport practiced only by the elite – training at a high level is very costly – there are now 19 fencing clubs in Israel, from Ma’alot in the North to Beersheba in the South.

Shaul Ladany survived the Holocaust and the Munich massacre at the 1972 Olympics. On the 50th anniversary of the attack, he shares his story of devotion and defiance.

Palestinian militants killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in 1972. Decades later Germany asked the victims’ families for forgiveness for not keeping the delegation safe.

A compensation agreement has been reached between the German government and the families of 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team who were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympic Games, just days before the 50th anniversary of incidents that claimed their lives.

The Israeli and German governments announced an agreement after the families said they would boycott a memorial observing the 1972 attack over what they called insufficient recompense.

(JTA) — All but one of the family members of the eleven Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics are planning to boycott a ceremony marking the fiftieth anniversary

(JTA) - All but one of the family members of the 11 Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Munich Olympics are planning to boycott a ceremony

Ankie Spitzer, wife of murdered fencing coach Andrei Spitzer, calls on President Herzog to also stay away from 50th-anniversary event, citing German government's 'degrading' offer

The families of the athletes killed by the Black September terrorist group say that the compensation they have been offered is inadequate and will stay away from a ceremony in Munich in September.