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The Lod Airport massacre[1][2][3][4] was a terrorist attack that occurred on May 30, 1972, in which three members of the Japanese Red Army, on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), killed 26 people and injured 80 others at Tel Aviv's Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport).[5] Two of the attackers were killed, while the last survivor was captured after being wounded.
The dead included sixteen Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico, a Canadian citizen, and Israeli Professor Aharon Katzir, an internationally renowned protein biophysicist, whose brother, Ephraim Katzir, would be elected President of Israel the following year.
Because airport security was focused on the possibility of a Palestinian attack, the use of Japanese terrorists took the guards by surprise. The attack has often been described as a suicide mission, but it has also been asserted that it was the outcome of a larger operation (the particulars of which remain unpublicized) that went awry.[6] The three perpetrators—Kōzō Okamoto, Tsuyoshi Okudaira, and Yasuyuki Yasuda—had been trained in Baalbek, Lebanon; the actual planning was handled by Wadie Haddad (a.k.a. Abu Hani), head of PFLP External Operations, with some input from Okamoto.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Katzir
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Aharon Katzir (Aharon Katzir-Katchalsky) (Hebrew: אהרן קציר) (1914 – 30 May 1972) was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers.
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Born 1914 in Łódź, Poland, he moved to Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. There, he adopted his Hebrew surname Katzir. He was murdered in the JRA attack on Lod Airport in 1972. His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir, became the President of Israel in 1973.[edit] Awards
- In 1961, Katzir was awarded the Israel Prize, in life sciences, together with his pupil, Ora Kedem.[1]
http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/israel/kimche1.htm
Israel in 1965
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The younger generation of Mapai leaders, who have been described in the post-Sinai years as the "new thinkers," will be in their intellectual prime. Giora Josephtal will be fifty-three; the nuclear physicist with a marked political bent, Aharon Katzir, will be fifty-two; Moshe Dayan, Abba Eban, and Yigael Yadin will be in their late forties; and Shimon Peres, only forty. Two others must be mentioned, though neither is a member of Mapai at present; but by 1965 Israel's party alignment will have undergone great changes. They are the former head of the Haganah, Israel Galili, who will be fifty-eight in 1965, and Yigal Allon, probably the ablest commander during the war of 1948. He will be only forty-six. Both rank among the outstanding figures in Israel's public life.
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