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1 Minute for Munich

Join the international commemoration of Israel’s fallen athletes — wherever you are on the morning of the Olympic Games’ opening ceremonies. This Friday morning, a short ceremony at Israel’s embassy in London will pay tribute…

Pesach Benson
July 25, 2012
12:00 am

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Join the international commemoration of Israel’s fallen athletes — wherever you are on the morning of the Olympic Games’ opening ceremonies.

This Friday morning, a short ceremony at Israel’s embassy in London will pay tribute to the 11 athletes killed at the 1972 Munich games. The event — streamed online at Minute for Munich starting at 10:45 a.m. London time — will be followed by a global minute of silence at 11:00 a.m.

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Tags: Internet activism, London, Minute for Munich, Munich massacre, Olympics minute of silence

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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