In September 1972 , Paglin conspired with Rabbi Meir Kahane , Avraham Hershkowitz , and Yosef Schneider , then members of the Jewish Defense League , to smuggle weapons to Rome and take over the Libyan embassy , kill half of those present , and then escape , as revenge for the murder of the eleven Israeli athletes in Munich . Paglin had a number of weapon stores , which he had gathered from the Sinai Campaign and the Six-Day War . He delivered to Hershkowitz two Carl Gustav submachine guns , two 9 mm Beretta pistols , three hand grenades and ammunition for rifles and pistols . The crate , which arrived at the El-Al luggage department disguised as biscuit baking equipment on September 13 , aroused suspicion and the contents were discovered . Hershkowitz was arrested on September 15 ( and claimed that Kahane had handed them over to the authorities ) . Paglin was arrested on September 19 and the attorney Shmuel Tamir was hired to represent him . Paglin admitted to Tamir that he gave into temptation and fell victim to one time weakness . Through his aunt , former Knesset Member Beba Idelson , he sent a message to Prime Minister Golda Meir saying that he was willing to meet with her and explain that there was no underground movement against the State . During the trial , Tamir hinted that Rabbi Kahane ( who was not arrested ) had collaborated with the authorities , and questioned why Kahane 's passport was n't confiscated . During the trial , Paglin received favorable treatment , and stayed at the police station in Nes Tziona and at the Basel Hotel in Tel Aviv . At the end of the trial those involved received light sentences , and Paglin received a one-year suspended sentence . MK Benjamin Halevy , a former Supreme Court judge , summarized the affair in this way : " As a former Irgun member , with serious experience in the underground , Paglin was caught in a trap by people far less serious . " When the Likud took power in 1977 , Prime Minister Begin appointed Paglin as his counter-terrorism adviser . He invested in this position his characteristic enthusiasm and diligence . However , a few months after his appointment , he was killed in a traffic accident with his wife Tziporah , when an elderly driver suffered a heart attack , lost control of the wheel , and collided into his car
murder of the eleven Israeli athletes in Munich
Munich massacre
Amichai Paglin