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Monday, April 15, 2019
40 years later, IDF commander returns Yoni Netanayhu’s personal effects
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his brother Ido say they are “touched” to be given some of the personal effects of their older brother who was killed in an IDF operation more than 40 years ago.
Yosef Shemesh, who served as Yoni Netanyahu’s IDF commander in the armored corps in the Golan Heights, kept a number of his personal items since the 1970s.
Among the items Shemesh returned to the Netanyahus was Yoni’s Passover haggadah, his coveralls, a t-shirt, gloves, sleeping bag, and compass.
“It’s very emotional to see these items again after so many years, especially the Passover haggadah that Yoni wrote about,” Dr. Ido Netanyahu says. “He spoke of celebrating a special Passover seder in one of his more emotional letters, so thank you.”
Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu was killed during a rescue operation to release Israeli hostages during Operation Entebbe in 1976.
ראש הממשלה @netanyahu ואחיו עדו קיבלו לידיהם פריטים אישיים של יונתן נתניהו, שנהרג במהלך מבצע אנטבה. בין הפריטים שנמסרו, סכין קומנדו, הגדה של פסח וסרבלו האישי
(צילום: איתי בית און, לע"מ) @AmichaiStein1 pic.twitter.com/OPtcmuxXkW— כאן חדשות (@kann_news) April 15, 2019
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