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unusual facts about Dolphinarium massacre



2001 Maccabiah Games

It is considered a 'smaller games' for three reasons: attendance was significantly lower, particularly from the Australians (it sent only about 170 athletes, compared with around 400 in 1997); it was run at the height of the Second Intifada (and straight after the infamous Dolphinarium bombing—the largest of the Intifada—that killed 21 Israelis, mostly high school students); and not all wounds had been healed after the collapse of the bridge.

David Gurevich

David Gurevich was the producer of the film "Empty Rooms" (directed by the outstanding Dutch director Willy Lindwer) about the Dolphinarium massacre on June 1, 2002, where twenty-one people died in the suicide bombing committed by Islamic Jihad outside Dolphinarium, a Tel Aviv disco.


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