Twenty-eight years to the day after Arab terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, a memorial was unveiled at a Jewish school in Sydney, Australia. Israeli Sports Minister Matan Vilnai was among some 800 guests who gathered around a plot in the heart of Moriah College, where an 11-sided white marble base bears the names of the victims.
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