in the 2005 film, Munich, which was directed by Steven Spielberg. The film portrays Romano as having an opportunity to escape out a window after the struggle caused by Weinberg, but hesitating when he sees a knife lying on the floor, ultimately choosing to attack the terrorists instead. After viewing the movie, Ilana Romano, Yossef's widow, said "We don't have a problem with it; the opposite, we are glad that people are being reminded of what happened in Munich so it will never happen again". Ilana Romano fought unsuccessfully for a moment of silence to be held at the 2012 Summer Olympics in memory of the Israeli athletes murdered forty years prior. In 2014, however, the International Olympic Committee agreed to contribute $250,000 towards a memorial to the dead Israeli athletes. References Israeli male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Israel Weightlifters at the 1972 Summer Olympics Victims of the Munich massacre Libyan Jews 20th-century Israeli Jews Israeli people of Libyan-Jewish descent Libyan emigrants to Israel Deaths by firearm in Germany 1940 births 1972 deaths People from Benghazi 20th-century Israeli military personnel