Q177
Current Affairs & General KnowledgeImportant Days & Static GK
Who was the Prime Minister of Israel during the Munich Massacre?
- a.Golda Meir
- b.David Ben-Gurion
- c.Levi Eshkol
- d.Shimon Peres
Answer: (A) Golda Meir
Answer as of 2019 — this may have changed since.
Golda Meir was Prime Minister of Israel at the time of the 1972 Munich Massacre, in which Palestinian militants killed eleven Israeli athletes and coaches at the Munich Olympics; she subsequently authorised the covert "Operation Wrath of God" in response.