On March 31, 1982, Yaacov Bar-Simantov, who was the second secretary of Israel's embassy in France, was shot dead in the Parisian suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt by an unknown female assailant.
[1] At 12:50 P.M, a young woman wearing a white beret approached the diplomat, who was accompanied by his wife and 8-year-old daughter, and shot him in the head three times with a 7.65 millimeter semiautomatic pistol in the lobby of their apartment building at 17 Avenue Ferdinand Buisson in Boulogne-Billancourt.
The Israeli Embassy stated that no particular security arrangements had been in effect for the diplomat, who had worked in Paris for a little over two years on his first foreign assignment.
Israel accused the PLO of being involved and considered the murder a violation of the terms of the July 1981 ceasefire arranged by the United States after fighting in Lebanon.
In December 2013, the city council of Bagnolet declared Abdallah an "honorary resident," describing him as a "political prisoner" and "defender of the Palestinian just cause," without mentioning his involvement in the murders.