Description:Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano, Moshe Weinberg, Yossef Gutfreund, Kehat Shorr, Amitzur Shapira, Ze'ev Friedman, Eliezer Halfin, Mark Slavin, Yakov Springer. Excerpt: Amitzur Shapira (Hebrew: 1932 - September 6, 1972) was one of the best Israeli short distance runners in the 1950s. At the time of his death he was also one of the country's best track coaches. Amitzur Shapira was born in Israel and was a resident in Herzliya . For many years, he served as a teacher and educator at the Wingate Institute's Jewish College. When Shapira went to the 1972 Summer Olympics he was the head coach for the Israeli track and field team. During the 1972 Olympics he and 10 other members of the Israel Olympic team were taken hostage by Arab terrorists at the games . Two of the Israelis were shot in the beginning of the ordeal and the other nine (including Shapira) were held hostage and then later were murdered on the tarmac of Furstenfeldbruck airbase during a botched rescue attempt by Munich police and Bavarian border guards. Amitzur Shapira was best known as the coach of Esther Shachamarov who later became one of the best all-time Israeli Olympic athletes (in 1976, she became the first Israeli to reach an Olympic final). When she heard the news that her coach had been murdered she withdrew from the 1972 Olympics. Amitzur Shapira is buried in Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv . See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Andre Spitzer (1945 in Romania September 6, 1972 at Frstenfeldbruck Air Base, near Munich, West Germany ), was a fencing master and coach of Israel 's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by Palestinians...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Israeli People Taken Hostage: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano. To get started finding Israeli People Taken Hostage: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
64
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
1155558235
Israeli People Taken Hostage: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano
Description: Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano, Moshe Weinberg, Yossef Gutfreund, Kehat Shorr, Amitzur Shapira, Ze'ev Friedman, Eliezer Halfin, Mark Slavin, Yakov Springer. Excerpt: Amitzur Shapira (Hebrew: 1932 - September 6, 1972) was one of the best Israeli short distance runners in the 1950s. At the time of his death he was also one of the country's best track coaches. Amitzur Shapira was born in Israel and was a resident in Herzliya . For many years, he served as a teacher and educator at the Wingate Institute's Jewish College. When Shapira went to the 1972 Summer Olympics he was the head coach for the Israeli track and field team. During the 1972 Olympics he and 10 other members of the Israel Olympic team were taken hostage by Arab terrorists at the games . Two of the Israelis were shot in the beginning of the ordeal and the other nine (including Shapira) were held hostage and then later were murdered on the tarmac of Furstenfeldbruck airbase during a botched rescue attempt by Munich police and Bavarian border guards. Amitzur Shapira was best known as the coach of Esther Shachamarov who later became one of the best all-time Israeli Olympic athletes (in 1976, she became the first Israeli to reach an Olympic final). When she heard the news that her coach had been murdered she withdrew from the 1972 Olympics. Amitzur Shapira is buried in Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv . See also (online edition) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Andre Spitzer (1945 in Romania September 6, 1972 at Frstenfeldbruck Air Base, near Munich, West Germany ), was a fencing master and coach of Israel 's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by Palestinians...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Israeli People Taken Hostage: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano. To get started finding Israeli People Taken Hostage: Gilad Shalit, David Mark Berger, Nachshon Wachsman, Eldad Regev, Andre Spitzer, Ehud Goldwasser, Yossef Romano, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.