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Jewish News 24 · Jul 23, 2026

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Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese terrorist who participated in the 1972 attack at Tel Aviv's airport that killed 26 people, died Thursday in Beirut after a long illness, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said. He was 78. Okamoto was the lone surviving attacker in the assault, carried out by members of the Japanese Red Army in coordination with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was sentenced to life in prison in Israel but was released in a 1985 prisoner exchange and later granted political asylum in Lebanon, where he lived until his death.

Kozo Okamoto, the Japanese terrorist who participated in the 1972 attack at Tel Aviv's airport that killed 26 people, died Thursday in Beirut after a long illness, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said. He was 78. Okamoto was the lone surviving attacker in the assault, carried out by members of the Japanese Red Army in coordination with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was sentenced to life in prison in Israel but was released in a 1985 prisoner exchange and later granted political asylum in Lebanon, where he lived until his death.

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