Biographies of the massacred Israeli athletes.

We will never forget eleven of our fallen brothers, in our hearts they are always with us ............David Berger, Zeev Friedman, Yossef Gutfreund, Elizer Halfin, Yossef Romano, Amitzur Shapira, Kehat Shorr, Mark Slavin, Andre Spitzer, Jacov Springer, Moshe Weinberg.

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Moshe Weinberg - wrestling referee

Died at the age of 33.
He was an outstanding wrestler with Hapoel Haifa and the Israeli national team. He was the youth and adult Greek-Roman style champion for 8 years. He also served as the coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team.

Eliezer Halffin - wrestler

Died at the age of 24.
He was born in the Soviet Union where he spent 11 years specializing in free-style, light weight wrestling. He achieved fourth place in the Soviet national youth championships. Following immigration to Israel, he was a leading wrestler with Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israeli national team. He finished 12th in the world free-style championships.

Mark Slavin - wrestler

Died at the age of 18.
He was born in the Soviet Union where he recorded a number of notable achievements. In February 1972, he won the Soviet Roman-Greek style wrestling championships. In May of that year, he immigrated to Israel and joined Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israeli Olympic team.

Ze'ev Friedman - weight lifter

Came to Israel in 1960. He began his sporting career as a gymnast but was drawn to weightlifting. He was a member of Hapoel Kiryat Haim and was the Israeli rooster-weight weightlifting champion for 7 years. In 1969, he achieved 7th place in the world championships in Warsaw and third place in the Manila Games in 1971. He finished 12th at the Munich Olympic Games, breaking 3 Israeli records in the process.

Joseph Romano - weight lifter

Died at the age of 32.
He was born in Libya, and he was a member of the Israeli national team and champion of Israel for 10 years. In the last years of his life, he acted as coach and manager of the weightlifting department of Hapoel Tel Aviv where he was a member for 14 years.

Kahat Shor - shooting coach

Died at the age of 53.
He was born in Romania and was a member of Hapoel Tel Aviv. He chalked up many impressive achievements in the field of shooting and became coach at Hapoel Tel Aviv. He was appointed shooting coach of the Israeli national team for the Asian Games in Bangkok and prepared the national Olympic team for the 20th Olympiad in Munich.

David Berger - weight lifter

Died at the age of 28.
He was born in the United States where he was national youth middleweight weightlifting champion. After immigrating to Israel, he joined Maccabi Tel Aviv and won the Israeli national middle heavyweight championships. He won a silver medal at the Asian Games in Manilla.

Joseph Gottfreund - wrestling referee

Died at the age of 40.
He was born in Romania, where he recorded several notable achievements as a wrestler. After immigrating to Israel, he joined Hapoel Jerusalem and was responsible for the heavy athletics department at the club. He completed an international referee's course and recorded a number of impressive achievements as a wrestling referee, refereeing at the 1968 Tokyo Olympics and the world championships in India and Bulgaria before being invited by the Olympic Committee to be a referee at the Munich Games.

Andrei Schpitzer - fencing referee

Died at the age of 27.
He was born in Romania, where he began his fencing career. Following immigration to Israel, he joined the fencing section at Maccabi Ramat Gan where he had an outstanding career. He ran the fencing course at the Wingate Institute coaches' school and was appointed Israeli national fencing team coach.

Amitsur Shapira - athletics coach

Died at the age of 40.
He was born in Israel, and was one of the top short distance runners in Israel in the 1950s. He qualified as a physical education teacher and became an athletics coach. He devoted much of his time to training young athletes, his most notable achievement being the discovery of Esther Roth-Sachmorov. He coached Roth-Sachmorov during the last six years of his life and helped her to many achievements and to world fame.

Yaakov Springer - weightlifting referee

Died at the age of 50.
He was born in Poland, where he was leading wrestler and weight lifter, representing his country in many competitions. When he immigrated to Israel in 1956 he devoted himself to teaching physical education in Jaffa and Bat-Yam. He was appointed Israeli national weightlifting coach and trained referees. He achieved an international reputation as a referee. The Munich Games were the fifth Olympiad he attended as referee.

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