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Moshe Weinberg (Hebrew: משה ויינברג sometimes Weinberger; 19 September 1939 – 5 September 1972) was an Israeli wrestler who was the coach of the national team, as well the coach of Hapoel Tel Aviv. He began his career in Hapoel Haifa. He was the Israeli youth champion in wrestling.
Jul 23, 2021 · Moshe Weinberg was one of the 11 Israeli athletes killed by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich. The Tokyo 2020 opening ceremony honored the victims for the first time with a moment of silence and a dance performance.
On September 5, 1972 he was killed by terrorists—the first of twelve victims. In December 2022 the Jewish Museum Munich and the Munich Documentation Centre for the History of National Socialism, the Centrum für Jüdische Studien, Graz, the Museum Graz, and the Jewish Museum Vienna remember Weinberg with a graphic novel by the artist Nina Prader.
Sep 4, 2022 · Black September ended up with nine hostages, after killing wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg and weightlifter Yossef Romano, who had both fought back against the attackers.
Sep 22, 2022 · When Israeli wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg was murdered along with ten other members of the Israeli Olympic team 50 years ago at the Munich Summer Olympics, he left behind his wife Mimi, and his...
Wrestling coach Moshe Weinberg, attacked the kidnappers as the hostages were being moved from one apartment to another, allowing one of his wrestlers, Gad Tsobari, to escape. The burly Weinberg knocked one of the intruders unconscious and stabbed another with a fruit knife before being shot to death.
May 24, 2021 · Learn about the terrorist attack on Israeli athletes at the 1972 Summer Games in Munich, Germany, and the aftermath of the tragedy. Moshe Weinberg, a wrestling coach, was one of the two Israelis killed almost immediately by the Black September extremists.
