Moshe Dayan1972
This record states: Golda Meir created Committee X, a small group of Government officials tasked with formulating an Israeli response, with herself and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan at the head.
Israel · Government / Government of Israel. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
This record states: Golda Meir created Committee X, a small group of Government officials tasked with formulating an Israeli response, with herself and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan at the head.
This record states: She also appointed General Aharon Yariv as her Advisor on Counterterrorism; he, along with Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, took the principal role in directing the ensuing operation.
This record states: The committee came to the conclusion that, to deter future violent incidents against Israel, they needed to assassinate those who had supported or carried out the Munich massacre, and in dramatic fashion.
Authorized by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir in the autumn of 1972, the operation is believed to have continued for over twenty years.
Golda Meir created Committee X, a small group of Government officials tasked with formulating an Israeli response, with herself and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan at the head.
Operation "Bayonet", a covert operation directed by the Mossad to assassinate individuals suspected of being involved in the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were killed.
The targets were members of the Palestinian armed militant group Black September and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operatives.
This record states: Following the Munich attack, the Israeli Government, headed by Prime Minister Golda Meir, orders Mossad to hunt down those known to have been involved, Operation Bayonet.
This record states: She also appointed General Aharon Yariv as her Advisor on Counterterrorism; he, along with Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, took the principal role in directing the ensuing operation.
This record states: The committee came to the conclusion that, to deter future violent incidents against Israel, they needed to assassinate those who had supported or carried out the Munich massacre, and in dramatic fashion.
Two days after the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics, Israel retaliated by bombing ten PLO bases in Syria and Lebanon.
This record states: Golda Meir created Committee X, a small group of Government officials tasked with formulating an Israeli response, with herself and Defence Minister Moshe Dayan at the head.
This record states: She also appointed General Aharon Yariv as her Advisor on Counterterrorism; he, along with Mossad Director Zvi Zamir, took the principal role in directing the ensuing operation.
This record states: The committee came to the conclusion that, to deter future violent incidents against Israel, they needed to assassinate those who had supported or carried out the Munich massacre, and in dramatic fashion.
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