Career
He was the youngest of the victims at the age of 18. He was taken hostage with eight other Israeli athletes. Slavin was shot by machine gun fire in a helicopter during a botched rescue attempt.
Slavin had moved to Israel just four months before the Olympic games. and he joined Hapoel Tel Aviv and the Israeli Olympic Team.
He was the youngest Israeli Olympian competing at the games. Slavin had been staying in Unit 3 at 31 Connollystrasse in the Olympic Village, with fellow wrestlers Gad Tsobari and Eliezer Halfin, and weightlifters David Berger, Yossef Romano and Zeev Friedman.
Slavin had been due to make his Olympic debut on the day heavily armed terrorists broke into the Olympic Village and captured him while the Olympic athletes were still asleep.