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Zvi Zamir, Israeli spy chief amid war and tragedy, dies at 98

Zvi Zamir, an Israeli spymaster who watched in horror in 1972 as the hostage-taking of Israeli Olympic team members by Palestinian militants at the Munich Games ended in a deadly firefight and who then directed a covert campaign to strike back at Palestinian terrorist networks, died Jan. 2. He was 98.

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