Michaeli competed for Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics off the coast of Kiel, 900 kilometers from Munich, Germany, at the age of 27, with Itzhak Nir in &lt;a href="Sailing%20at%20the%201972%20Summer%20Olympics%20%E2%80%93%20Flying%20Dutchman"&gt;Sailing--Mixed Two Person Heavyweight Dinghy/Flying Dutchman&lt;/a&gt;. He and Nir did not participate in the final race of the competition, due to the Munich Massacre in which Arab terrorists from the Black September group killed 11 Israeli Olympians at Fürstenfeldbruck Air Base outside of Munich. They came in 26th.