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ELIEZER HALFIN, 24, was a wrestler who emigrated from Russia four years ago. A Tel Aviv garage mechanic when he was not practicing wrestling, Halfin, a bachelor, was the only son of a Latvian father who had lost his first wife and children in a Riga ghetto during World...
...ACOV SPRINGER, 52, a weight-lifting referee and emigrant from Poland, was a physical education teacher in a high school in a town near Tel Aviv. When the news of his death reached the town, 700 students, led by the mayor and town council, marched in procession, carrying flags draped in mourning...
...recriminations that followed the Munich massacre suggest, the answers are far from clear. While Israel's Premier Golda Meir was thanking Bonn for its desperate efforts, other Israelis were vehemently agreeing with the Tel Aviv daily Hatzofeh that the whole tragedy might have been avoided had West Germany not "surrendered" in the past to the demands of terrorists; last February, Bonn delivered a cool $5,000,000 cash ransom to Palestinian hijackers who had taken over an Athens-bound Lufthansa 747 with 186 passengers and crew members and diverted the plane to Aden. For their part, German officials complained...
Since August 1969, when it freed 71 imprisoned Arabs at the behest of some guerrillas who seized a Tel Aviv-bound TWA jet with 113 aboard and took it to Damascus, Israel has been the leading advocate of the nononsense, no-negotiations approach. With some 500 Arab guerrillas crowding its jails (only Nazi war crimes rate the death penalty in Israel), Israelis argue that the present rash of hijackings and other extortion attempts would quickly become a galloping plague if they answered threats to hostages by releasing prisoners. "We believe that blackmail leads only to more blackmail," says an Israeli...
...argument against acquiescence is persuasive. Still, there is little to suggest that the tough Israeli approach has discouraged terrorists. Tel Aviv's uncompromising stance did not dissuade a Palestinian guerrilla team from seizing a Sabena jet with 90 passengers at Tel Aviv's Lod International Airport last May and trying to bargain for the release of 117 imprisoned fedayeen. It was sheer luck that only one passenger was killed when Israeli security men stormed into the plane with guns blazing to end the extortion attempt. Three weeks later, a trio of machine-gun toting Japanese radicals working...