In September 1972 he escorted the Israeli delegation to the 1972 Summer Olympics, in which the Israeli athletes were murdered. On 6 September 1972, after the massacre, he suffered a heart attack during the public memorial fir the slain athletes and slain German police officer shot dead in the rescue effort. Having suffered the loss of his cousin, Moshe Weinberg, as one of the first Israelis to be murdered at the Israeli housing unit, he refused to be hospitalized in a German hospital and was flown back to Israel for medical aid.