Sylvia Raphael was born on 1 April 1937 , near Cape Town , South Africa . Raphael , whose father was a Jewish atheist and mother was Christian , was raised in her mother 's religion . Having witnessed an antisemitic incident in her native country as a child , however , she immigrated to Israel in 1963 . She initially lived on a kibbutz , and later worked as a teacher before moving to Tel Aviv , where she was recruited by Mossad . After training she attained the rank of “ combatant , ” the highest rank for a Mossad agent . This ranking qualified Raphael to operate in foreign countries , and she was sent to Paris in the guise of a freelance journalist with a Canadian passport in the name of real-life Canadian photojournalist Patricia Roxborough . When the Israeli government decided to track down the Black September operatives who committed the Munich massacre in Munich , West Germany in 1972 , Raphael provided valuable intelligence which led to the killing of three , before being assigned to an Operation Wrath of God team
Munich massacre
Munich massacre
Sylvia Raphael