(1988–1992) and mayor of the town of Bat-Yam. He held the may-
oralty until his appointment in 2003 as the Israeli ambassador to the
Philippines. Saguy has a B.A. degree in history and international re-
lations from Tel Aviv University.SALAMEH, HASSAN ALI. Known by his nickname, “the Red
Prince.” Salameh was the son of a leader of the fighting Arab bands
in the Israeli War of Independence. Salameh was a senior operations
officer of Al-Fatah and member of Yasser Arafat’s inner circle. In this
position he oversaw the Black September Organization. Salameh
masterminded the 1972 hijacking of Sabena flight 572 to Tel Aviv,
killing 27 tourists at Israel’s Lod airport, and allegedly the murder of
Israeli athletes at the Munich massacrein September 1972. In 1973
he arranged the murder of the American and Saudi ambassadors in
Sudan. For these reasons, he was targeted for killing by Committee
X. An attempt to kill him was made in summer 1973 in Lillehammer,
Norway, but the Mossad team mistakenly killed an innocent Moroc-
can waiter, Ahmed Bouchiki, after identifying him as Salameh. The
result of the Lillehammer Affairwas that the hunt for Salameh be-
came known.
It is not known if Salameh mourned Bouchiki, but he undoubtedly
was well aware of what awaited him and that he was a target for elim-
ination. Thereafter Salameh did not move around in Europe, but this
did not save him. It bought him only a few more years of life. In Jan-
uary 1979, when his car passed a booby-trapped vehicle in a Beirut
street, he was killed when it was detonated. His relatives and members
of the Palestine Liberation Organization asserted after his death that
he had not been involved in terrorism. See alsoWRATH OF GOD
OPERATION.SAMUEL, EFRAIM.A Romanian-born Jew, in 1958 Samuel immi-
grated to Israel with his Christian wife and their two children. For two
years the family lived in a kibbutz, before moving to Haifa. Samuel
worked in maintenance at a laundry in the city. However, the Israeli
Security Agency(ISA) had begun to keep an eye on him shortly af-
ter his arrival in Israel because of the contradiction between his os-
tensibly Zionist move of immigrating and the fact that he was known
to be a devout Communist. Initially his insistence that he had migrated242 • SALAMEH, HASSAN ALI06-102 (04) Q-Z.qxd 3/24/06 7:25 AM Page 242