during his tenure at the mossad he helped carry out operation wrath of god the israeli response to the munich massacre and dealt with the lead up and aftermath of the yom kippur war in  after the german government refused to accept an israeli team during the munich hostage crisis zamir was sent to observe any activities he was at the fürstenfeldbruck airbase the night that the failed rescue attempt left all nine remaining israeli hostages dead zamir was interviewed about the incident in  when he spoke with the producer of one day in september a documentary on the massacre in it he strongly criticized the german rescue effort for its complete lack of coordination he had previously been interviewed on this subject for an nbc profile during their coverage of the  barcelona olympics and he has discussed the massacre several times since zamir currently resides in zahala a neighborhood in the north of tel aviv