Golda Meir

===Munich Olympics (1972)===
{{Main|Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre}}
[[File:Nixons with Golda Meir.gif|thumb|upright|right|Meir (center) with [[Pat Nixon|Pat]] and President [[Richard Nixon]] in Washington, DC, in 1973.]]
In the wake of the [[Munich massacre]] at the [[1972 Summer Olympics]], Meir appealed to the world to "save our citizens and condemn the unspeakable criminal acts committed".<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20050316234049/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2Fcampaigns%2Fmiddle_east%2Fmidmun.xml Hostages killed in gun battle] ''Daily Telegraph'', September 5, 1972</ref> Outraged at the perceived lack of global action, she ordered the [[Mossad]] to hunt down and assassinate suspected leaders and operatives of [[Black September (group)|Black September]] and the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine|PFLP]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Morris |first=B. |url=https://archive.org/details/righteousvictims00morr_0 |title=Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist–Arab Conflict, 1881–2000 |publisher=[[Vintage Books]] |year=2001 |isbn=0-679-74475-4 |location=New York |orig-year=1999}}</ref>