Young people remember the Olympic attack – Bavaria

Young people from Bavaria and Israel want to commemorate the assassination attempt on the Israeli team at the Olympic Games in Munich 50 years ago. “To this day, this terrorist attack represents a deep turning point in Israel’s history,” said Israel’s consul, Oshrat Shamni, according to a statement by the Bavarian Youth Council (BJR) on Thursday. It is therefore important to keep the memory of the assassination alive and to convey its importance to younger generations. Together with the Israeli Consulate General and the BJR, the Bavarian Youth Exchange Foundation has therefore developed the support program “50 Years of the Olympics: The Olympic Games in Munich and the Assassination of the Israeli Delegation – Bavarian-Israeli Youth Encounters 2022/23”. The foundation was set up last year by the Bavarian state government. She gives the BJR 200,000 euros for the youth exchange. The BJR announced that the money would be used to finance initiatives in which young people from Bavaria and Israel jointly deal with the 1972 Olympic Games and the anti-Israeli assassination. One of the funded initiatives is the youth exchange between Munich and Be’er Sheva, which is also organized by the Heilig-Geist parish in the Olympiadorf. 24 young people from both countries were to meet first in Munich and then in November at Be’er Sheva. At both locations, the young people were to produce television reports on the subject of the Olympics in binational groups. They were trained for this by Bayerischer Rundfunk. “The youth exchange between Bavarian and Israeli young people makes an important contribution to the fight against anti-Semitism,” said Europe Minister Melanie Huml (CSU). On September 5, 1972, Palestinian terrorists attacked the Israeli team in the Olympic Village in Munich. Two athletes were killed. Nine other Israelis, five terrorists and a Bavarian policeman were killed in the unsuccessful rescue operation at the Fürstenfeldbruck air base. The Olympic Games were briefly interrupted, but then continued.