Flags were lowered to half mast at Lod Airport this evening and a memorial service was held to mark the first anniversary of the massacre that took the lives of 28 tourists and Israelis and wounded 70. The flags will be flown at half mast until tomorrow evening. The Lod Airport massacre was carried out by three Japanese gunmen in the service of Arab terrorists. Two of them were killed, and the third. Kozo Okamoto, is serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison. One of the massacre victims was Prof. Aharon Katzir-Katchalski, brother of President Ephraim Katzir. Israel’s new chief of state. Plans to erect a memorial to the massacre victims at Lod Airport were reported today.
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