Harmatz, Joseph. From the Wings. The Book Guild Ltd., 1998. “Our ultimate intention was to kill six million Germans...” Mr. Harmatz told The Observer of Britain in 1998. It was revenge, quite simply. Were we not entitled to our revenge, too?” He continued: “And should I look to my conscience? Maybe I was a bastard. But there is no pardonnez-moi. There have never been any such feelings of conscience. So many other people should look to their consciences, not us.” By his account the plot to poison the SS prisoners had been sanctioned by Chaim Weizmann, the Zionist leader who would become the first president of Israel. Harmatz studied law and economics in Israel, became the manager of a French shipping company and was director general of World ORT, short for Organization for Rehabilitation Through Training, a charity that runs vocational and technical schools. The idea, simply known as Plan A, was to poison the water supply of five German cities: Nuremberg, Weimar, Hamburg, Frankfurt, and Munich. The fallback was Plan B, which was a far less audacious plan to specifically poison Nazi prisoners of war. By mid-1945, Kovner had about 50 recruits to help implement Plan A. Disguised as engineers and workers, the Nakam Avengers infiltrated the waterworks of each target city. There, they studied how the water supply was pumped into German homes.