If you ask people who the hero of the Entebbe Raid of 1976 was, Israeli commando Yoni Netanyahu or Air France Pilot Michel Bacos will likely be mentioned. Very few, if any, would name passenger Michel ...

EXCLUSIVE: Go2Films has boarded sales rights to Jason Alexander-narrated documentary To Kill A Nazi about the Entebbe hostage crisis, which unfolded 50 years ago. Penn State professor Boaz Dvir ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PASSENGERS RESCUED in the Entebbe raid are welcomed home by loved ones at Ben-Gurion Airport in July 1976. (photo credit: REUTERS) ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It was perhaps the most daring Israeli military exploit ever — a rescue raid in Africa that inspired Hollywood films and became etched in Israeli history. Nearly four decades ...

The commemoration of Israel’s most famous military operation should have been a moment to celebrate for Matan Vilnai. Instead, the deputy commander of the Entebbe raid – in which commandos rescued 102 ...

TEL AVIV (JTA) — For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the 50th anniversary was less a celebration of one of Israel’s most mythologized military operations than a reckoning with the distance ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A mother and her daughter embrace when the latter arrived at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport after Israeli paratroopers freed ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s current tour of East Africa- Kenya included- was meant to coincide with the 40th anniversary of ‘Operation Entebbe’ which inspired many celluloid offerings, ...

“To be abducted in Athens on an Air France plane makes sense,” Gonen said. “But to be abducted at home, in the State of Israel, it was too much.” For the survivors of Operation Entebbe, marking the ...

JERUSALEM — Israel on Friday released a cache of previously classified documents that outline in detail the decisions behind a daring 1976 raid to free more than 100 hostages held captive in Uganda.