On 11 August 2002 he attended a memorial marking the 30th anniversary of the Munich massacre, where during the 1972 Summer Olympics Israeli athletes were held hostage by Black September, who eventually killed 11 of them. He was involved in the 2005 deal for Israel to buy German submarines, the first deliveries of which are expected in 2012, and said it would benefit the German shipbuilding industry. At his farewell reception he summarised his tenure as "exciting, satisfying, frustrating, rewarding, enlightening". He was replaced by Yoram Ben-Zeev.