Thomas Bach, the president of the International Olympic Committee announced today (Saturday) that he will come to Israel for the first time to participate in the state ceremony commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Munich massacre.
Bach will arrive in Israel on September 19 and stay in Tel Aviv for two and a half days. In addition to his participation in the state memorial ceremony, he is scheduled to visit Yad Vashem to be the guest of President Herzog at the President's House, visit the Church of the Sepulcher, the Olympic Experience Museum in Tel Aviv, and even meet representatives of her families. and Israeli Olympic athletes
In doing so, President Thomas Bach accepted the invitation presented to him by the chairman of the Israeli Olympic Committee, in January of this year, at the Beijing Winter Games to participate as a guest of honor in the state ceremony to be held on September 21 in Israel in Tel Aviv.
The last time Bach visited Israel was 12 years ago in October 2010. Thomas Bach, born in Germany, the ninth president of the International Olympic Committee is the first Olympic champion to be elected president of the Olympic Committee and is considered the greatest friend of Israel in world sports.
Yael Arad.
Excited for the visit, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
President Bach was the one who acted and led to the administration of historical justice and brought for the first time in 49 years since the horrible massacre the long-awaited moment of silence, at the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Tokyo 2020.. a gesture that moved her families and the entire Israeli public to tears.
The Olympic Committee in Israel prepared for the commemorative events to mark the 50th anniversary of the massacre of the 11 Munich martyrs in 1972, with a series of ceremonies to be held in Israel.
On September 21, a state ceremony will be held, for the first time with the participation of the country's president Yitzhak Buzi Herzog, the president of the Bach International Olympic Committee, the families of the massacre victims, the survivors, the Minister of Sports, representatives of the Israeli Olympic Committee and dignitaries.
During the month of September, monuments, sports halls and squares will be inaugurated throughout Israel in the name of the 11 athletes, coaches and judges who were murdered in cold blood and brutally, the most prominent of which are the square in Ramat Hasharon, the sports hall in Or Yehuda and the commemorative events in the city of Bat Yam and the Galilee landscape.
Yael Arad: "In his decision to come to Israel, President Bach expresses the importance of commemorating the 11 members of the Israeli delegation to the Olympic Games in Munich for the International Olympic Committee and continues his moving action in commemorating the 11 Munich martyrs that already began at the Rio 2016 Games and continued at the Tokyo 2020 Games with the minute of silence at the opening ceremony.
"Since he was elected in 2013, President Bach has led countless innovative, ground-breaking moves in many fields and marched the organization to the front of the stage and established its status as a leading and valuable international leader and I am proud of his choice to come to Israel in these exciting and important days for Israeli sports."
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