Editing Lillehammer affair (section)

==Later developments==
The revelations of the captured agents dealt a massive blow to the secret infrastructure of the Mossad in Europe. The captured agents were interrogated over the operation. One of them, Dan Arbel, became extremely nervous as soon as his cell door shut due to his extreme claustrophobia; he provided many details on the operation in exchange for being transferred to a larger cell with a small window. Authorities discovered a key on one of the suspects for a Mossad safe house in [[Paris]]. It was handed over to the French police, who raided the flat and discovered keys to other Mossad safe houses in the city, along with evidence that several of those involved in the Lillehammer operation had been involved in other assassinations as part of [[Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre]]. Information on Mossad safe houses, phone numbers and agents gathered during the interrogation of the agents was rapidly shared with its European counterparts.<ref name=Reeve/>{{page number|date=July 2020}} As a result, Mossad agents who had been exposed had to be recalled, safe houses abandoned, phone numbers changed and operational methods modified.{{cn|date=July 2018}}

For the first time, clear evidence had been found of Israel's involvement in the string of assassinations of Palestinians that had taken place on European soil as part of [[Mossad assassinations following the Munich massacre|Operation Wrath of God]].<ref name=Reeve/>{{page number|date=July 2020}} Under intense international pressure, [[Golda Meir]] ordered the operation suspended.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Operation-Wrath-of-God|title=Operation Wrath of God – Israeli assassination campaign|website=britannica.com|access-date=7 October 2017}}</ref> It was resumed under Prime Minister [[Menachem Begin]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/zionist-james-bond-michael-harari-obit|title='The Zionist James Bond': Mossad officer who hunted down those behind 1972 'Munich massacre' dead at 87|date=18 March 2015|website=nationalpost.com|access-date=7 October 2017}}</ref>

Israel never officially took responsibility for the assassination.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/israel/Story/0,2763,193475,00.html| date=2 March 2000| title=Norway solves riddle of Mossad killing| work=[[The Guardian]] | location=London | first=Doug | last=Mellgren}}</ref> In January 1996, Prime Minister [[Shimon Peres]] said that Israel would never take responsibility for the killing but would consider compensation. The Government of Israel appointed an attorney, Amnon Goldenberg, to negotiate a settlement with Bouchikhi's widow Torill and daughter Malika, who were represented by attorney Thor-Erik Johansen. That same month, an agreement was reached; Israel paid compensation equal to [[United States dollar|US$]]283,000 split between Bouchikhi's wife and daughter. A separate settlement of US$118,000 was paid to a son from a previous marriage. An Israeli statement was also issued which stopped short of an apology but expressed "sorrow" over Bouchikhi's "unfortunate" death.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E6DA1639F93BA15752C0A960958260 World News Briefs;Israelis to Compensate Family of Slain Waiter] ''New York Times'' (28 January 1996)</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1996/01/27/israel-compensates-oslo-widow/fdd30145-913a-4acf-a869-67b7000af173/|title=ISRAEL COMPENSATES OSLO WIDOW|date=27 January 1996|access-date=7 October 2017|via=www.washingtonpost.com}}</ref>

In 1990, Norway reopened the case. In 1998 it issued a global arrest warrant for the leader of the operation, [[Michael Harari]], who had successfully escaped, but closed the case the following year after judging that it would be impossible to get a conviction.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2000/mar/02/israel|title=Norway solves riddle of Mossad killing|first=Doug|last=Mellgren|newspaper=The Guardian |date=2 March 2000|access-date=7 October 2017|via=www.theguardian.com}}</ref> According to the September 2004 book release of ''Mange liv'' (English: ''Many lives'') by the former lawyer [[Annæus Schjødt, Jr.|Annæus Schjødt]], who represented two of the agents in the case and later married one of them ([[Sylvia Raphael]]),<ref name="Witness; The Lillehammer Hit"/> information about the [[Israel and weapons of mass destruction|Israeli nuclear weapons program]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Mange liv|first=Annæus|last=Schjødt|publisher=Gyldendal|year=2004|isbn=978-82-05-32952-2|language=fr}}</ref> was leaked to the Government of Norway by one of the arrested agents, Dan Arbel. However, the Norwegians decided to remain silent about their findings.