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Wrath of God  

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  • Wrath of God (aka Mivtzah [or Mivtza] Elohim) was a covert Israeli assassination campaign carried out to avenge the 1972 kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian militants at the Munich Olympics. A secret Israeli committee chaired by Prime Minister Golda Meir and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is said to have authorized the assassination of everyone directly or indirectly involved in the Munich killings. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Wrath of God]

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  • Mivtzah Elohim

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/Wrath_of_God

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