and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) perpetrators and masterminds of the Munich massacre, Mossad officials regularly called her home to inform her whenever a target was killed. Ankie said that she drew no satisfaction, and would have preferred for the terrorists to have been put on trial: "It didn't fill me with joy to think, 'Oh, great, now they're revenging Andre', because I never looked for that revenge. I don't live for revenge, I live for justice". In 1980, Ankie Spitzer married Elie Rekhess, a professor at Tel Aviv University, and is now known as Ankie Rekhess-Spitzer. She led the fight to get the German government to admit their culpability in the failed rescue of Andre and the others. In 2003, after relatives of the killed Olympians brought a lawsuit against the German government charging the government with gross misconduct and gross mismanagement in its handling of the crisis, the Germans paid a financial settlement to the families of the Munich victims. Today Ankie Spitzer is a correspondent in Israel covering the Middle East for Dutch and Belgian television. Ankie Spitzer for years has sought to have the International Olympic Committee designate a minute of silence at the Opening Ceremony of an Olympic Games for the 11 Olympians who had been killed in Munich, but her request had always been denied until the delayed 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Andre Spitzer has been portrayed by Ori Pfeffer in Munich and Pasquale Aleardi in Munich 72: Das Attentat. See also List of select Jewish fencers One minute of silence References External links Sports Illustrated article CNN 2005 article Realitatea Romanian article 1945 births 1972 deaths Sportspeople from Timișoara Israeli expatriates in the Netherlands Israeli male fencers 20th-century Israeli Jews Jewish male fencers Victims of the Munich massacre Deaths by firearm in Germany Romanian emigrants to Israel Romanian Jews Academic staff of Wingate Institute Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery