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The Red Army Faction or Red Army Fraction ( RAF ; German : " Rote Armee Fraktion "), in its early stages commonly known as the Baader - Meinhof Group or Baader - Meinhof Gang , was a West German far - left terrorist group supported by the Stasi . The RAF was founded in ___MASK60___ by Andreas Baader , Gudrun Ensslin , Horst Mahler , and Ulrike Meinhof . The West German government considered the Red Army Faction to be a terrorist organization . Israel , officially known as the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East , on the southeastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea and the northern shore of the Red Sea . It has land borders with Lebanon to the north , Syria to the northeast , Jordan on the east , the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the east and west , respectively , and Egypt to the southwest . The country contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area . Israel ' s financial and technology center is Tel Aviv , while its seat of government and proclaimed capital is Jerusalem , although the state ' s sovereignty over the city of Jerusalem is internationally unrecognized . West Germany is the common English name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG ( or " RFA ") in the period between its creation on ___MASK44___ May ___MASK64___ to German reunification on 3 October 1990 . During this Cold War era , NATO - aligned West Germany and Warsaw Pact - aligned East Germany were divided by the Inner German border . After 1961 West Berlin was physically separated from East Berlin as well as from East Germany by the Berlin Wall . This situation ended when East Germany was dissolved and its five states joined the ten states of the Federal Republic of Germany along with the reunified city - state of Berlin . With the reunification of West and East Germany , the Federal Republic of Germany , enlarged now to sixteen states , became known simply as " Germany ". This period is also referred to as the Bonn Republic (" Bonner Republik ") by historians , alluding to the interwar Weimar Republic and the post - reunification Berlin Republic . The ___MASK13___ Summer Olympics ( German : " Olympische Sommerspiele ___MASK13___ "), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad , was an international multi - sport event held in Munich , West Germany , from August 26 to September ___MASK56___ , ___MASK13___ . Ulrike Marie Meinhof ( ___MASK89___ October 1934  9 May 1976 ) was a German left - wing militant . She co - founded the Red Army Faction (" Rote Armee Fraktion ") in 1970 after having previously worked as a journalist for the monthly left - wing magazine " konkret ". She was arrested in 1972 , and eventually charged with numerous murders and the formation of a criminal association . Before the trial concluded , Meinhof was found hanged in her prison cell in 1976 . Jerusalem , is a city located on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea . One of the oldest cities in the world , Jerusalem was named as "" Urusalima "" on ancient Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets , probably meaning " City of Shalem " after a Canaanite deity , during the early Canaanite period ( approximately ___MASK48___ ). During the Israelite period , significant construction activity in Jerusalem began in the 9th century BCE ( Iron Age II ), and in the 8th century the city developed into the religious and administrative center of the Kingdom of Judah . It is considered a holy city in the three major Abrahamic religions of Judaism , Christianity and Islam . Munich ( also in British English ) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Bavaria , on the banks of River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps . Munich is the third largest city in Germany , after Berlin and Hamburg , and the 12th biggest city of the European Union , with a population of above ___MASK63___ . ___MASK3___ million . The Munich Metropolitan Region is home to ___MASK3___ . 8 million people . Lebanon , officially known as the Lebanese Republic , is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered by Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south , while Cyprus is west across the Mediterranean Sea . Lebanon ' s location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland facilitated its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity . At just ___MASK38___ , 452 km ( ___MASK81___ , 036 sq . mi .), it is the smallest recognized country on the entire mainland Asian continent . Berndt Andreas Baader ( ___MASK84___ May 1943  18 October 1977 ) was one of the first leaders of the German left - wing militant organization Red Army Faction , also commonly known as " the Baader - Meinhof Group ". Iqrit ( or  , " Iqrith "), was a Palestinian Christian village , located northeast of Acre . Originally allotted to form part of an Arab state under the ___MASK50___ UN Partition Plan , it was seized and forcefully depopulated by the Israel Defense Forces ( IDF ) during the ___MASK45___ Arab - Israeli War , and their territory later became part of the new State of Israel . All of its Christian inhabitants were forced to flee to Lebanon or the Israeli village of Rameh , after they were expelled by Jewish forces in ___MASK45___ , and , despite the promise that they would be returned in two weeks ' time , the villagers were never allowed to return . In 1951 , in response to a plea from the Iqrit villagers , the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the former residents of Iqrit be allowed to return to their homes . However , before that happened , the IDF , despite awareness of the Supreme Court decision , destroyed the previously Christian village on Christmas Day , 1951 . Descendants to this day maintain an outpost in the village church , and bury their dead in its cemetery . All attempts to cultivate its lands are uprooted by the Israeli Lands Administration . The West Bank ("" " HaGadah HaMa ' aravit ") is a landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of Western Asia , forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories . The West Bank shares boundaries ( demarcated by the Jordanian - Israeli armistice of ___MASK64___ ) to the west , north , and south with Israel , and to the east , across the Jordan River , with Jordan . The West Bank also contains a significant section of the western Dead Sea shore . Black September (" ayll al - aswad ") refers to the conflict that was fought between the Palestine Liberation Organisation ( PLO ), under the leadership of Yasser Arafat , and the Jordanian Armed Forces , under the leadership of King Hussein primarily between 16 and ___MASK17___ September ___MASK60___ , with certain actions continuing until July ___MASK93___ . The Red Sea ( also the Erythraean Sea ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean , lying between Africa and Asia . The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden . To the north lie the Sinai Peninsula , the Gulf of Aqaba , and the Gulf of Suez ( leading to the Suez Canal ). The Red Sea is a Global ___MASK42___ ecoregion . The sea is underlain by the Red Sea Rift which is part of the Great Rift Valley . The Gaza Strip (' ), or simply Gaza "', is a small self - governing Palestinian territory on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea , that borders Egypt on the southwest for and Israel on the east and north along a border . Gaza , together with the West Bank , comprise the Palestinian territories claimed by the Palestinians as the State of Palestine . The territories of Gaza and the West Bank are separated from each other by Israeli territory . Both fall under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority , but Gaza has since June ___MASK62___ been governed by Hamas , a Palestinian Islamic organization which came to power in free elections in 2006 . It has been placed under an Israeli and U . S .- led international economic and political boycott from that time onwards . The Munich massacre was an attack during the ___MASK13___ Summer Olympics in Munich , West Germany , at which eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed , along with a German police officer , by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September . Shortly after the crisis began , they demanded 234 prisoners jailed in Israel and the German - held founders of the Red Army Faction ( Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof ) be released . Black September called the operation " Iqrit and Biram ", after two Palestinian Christian villages whose inhabitants were expelled by the IDF in ___MASK45___ . Gad Tsobari ( Hebrew :    sometimes Tsabari , Zobari , or Zabari ) ( born January 30 , 1944 ) is an Israeli - born light - flyweight freestyle wrestler and a member of Israel ' s ___MASK13___ Olympic team . He finished 12th ( of 50 ) in his event , and was considered a possible medal threat at the Montreal Games of 1976 . Tsobari was the only survivor of the six athletes housed in Apartment 3 at 31 Connollystraße , which was the second apartment taken by Arab terrorists in the early morning hours of September ___MASK3___ , ___MASK13___ in an event called the Munich massacre . Although he was originally taken hostage by the Black September terrorists , Tsobari was able to escape with the help of his already - wounded coach , Moshe Weinberg , who attacked the terrorists and received fatal gunshot wounds in the process . While Weinberg was fighting the terrorists , Tsobari dashed down a flight of stairs and through an underground garage , even as one of the terrorists pursued and shot after him . Tsobari found his way to the Olympic Village security building , where he informed officials about the break - in at the Israeli quarters . Nearly 18 hours later , Tsobari and the rest of the Israeli Olympians not taken hostage watched the helicopters take off for Fürstenfeldbruck airbase , where the remaining Israeli athletes taken hostage would be killed during a shootout with the German police . He is uncle of windsurfer and Olympic bronze medalist Shahar Tzuberi .