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In Hebrew. 152 pages. 115 x 112 mm. Rubber stamp impression of former owner, the Forest Hills, Queens, dentist Leon Lantz, whose wife disposed of his library upon his demise. The author of this work, Aharon Katzir was born Aharon Katchalsky on September 15, 1914 in Lodz, Poland immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1925 and was murdered, together with 25 other people, on May 30, 1972 by terrorists at the Gurion International Airport in Israel. He was a pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers and won the prestigious Israel Prize in 1961. He taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was a faculty member at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences, Rehovot, Israel as well as at the department of medical physics and biophysics at UC Berkeley, California. His younger brother, Ephraim Katzir, became the President of Israel in 1973. The State of Israel issued a postage stamp in memory of Katzir. The Katchalsky crater on the Moon is named after him. A center at the Weizmann Institute of Science is named after Katzir. A scholarship program of the Israeli Ministry of Defense is also named after him. Lod Airport massacre: Perpetrators Three members of the Japanese Red Army, recruited by the Palestinian group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-External Operations attacked Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport) near Tel Aviv, killing 26 people and injuring 80 others. Two of the attackers were killed, while a third, Kozo Okamoto, was captured after being wounded. The dead comprised 17 Christian pilgrims from Puerto Rico, a Canadian citizen, and eight Israelis, including Professor Aharon Katzir, an internationally renowned protein biophysicist. Katzir was head of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences and a popular scientific radio show host; he was also a candidate in the upcoming Israeli presidency election. His brother, Ephraim Katzir, was elected President of Israel the following year. Because airport security was focused on the possibility of a Palestinian attack, the use of Japanese attackers took the guards by surprise. The attack has often been described as a suicide mission, but it has also been asserted that it was the outcome of a larger operation (the particulars of which remain unpublicized) that went awry. The three perpetrators had been trained in Baalbek, Lebanon; the actual planning was handled by Wadie Haddad (a.k.a. Abu Hani), head of PFLP External Operations, with some input from Okamoto. In the immediate aftermath, news magazine Der Spiegel speculated that funding had been provided by some of the $5 million ransom paid by the West German government in exchange for the hostages of hijacked Lufthansa Flight 649 in February 1972. Seller Inventory # 011127
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