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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Entebbe

Entebbe hostages come home, July 4, 1976. (IDF archives)
March 5, 2023, 11:00 am
Entebbe rescue squad blasts Netanyahu for ‘sacrificing country for own interests’
Veterans cite leadership of PM’s brother, killed during operation, while calling out premier for ‘divide and rule’ tactics, blast him for comparing demonstrators to Huwara rioters
By Michael Horovitz
Israeli commandos in a black-painted Mercedes-Benz. (Defense Ministry archive)
August 23, 2021, 4:51 am
Entebbe in person: A new oral history challenges official account of 1976 rescue
Brimming with detail and at times looking to settle old scores, newly translated book ‘Entebbe Declassified’ brings voices of the commandos who took part in the legendary operation
By Judah Ari Gross
A Sudanese protester shouts slogans during a demonstration against the military council, in Khartoum, Sudan, on June 30, 2019. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
February 5, 2020, 4:20 pm
PM’s meeting with Sudan leader — historic breakthrough or election-season ploy?
To many Israelis, Khartoum is a symbol of Arab hostility, and diplomatic ties still seem far off. But Abdel Fattah al-Burhan’s powwow with Netanyahu may bear first fruits soon
By Raphael Ahren
Eric Bacos, left, son of Air France pilot Michel Bacos who remained with his passengers when they were hijacked and held captive at Entebbe in 1976, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, May 23, 2019. (Haim Tsach/GPO)
May 23, 2019, 10:14 pm
Netanyahu meets son of French pilot who stayed with Israeli hostages in Entebbe
Eric Bacos says his family owes a great debt to Israel for commando raid, led by PM’s brother, which rescued the hijacked passengers and crew
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, and Dr. Ido Netanyahu, left, receive the personal effects of their brother Yoni in Jerusalem on April 15, 2019. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
April 17, 2019, 8:07 pm
Netanyahu receives late brother’s haggadah, but report indicates it may be fake
Prime minister given personal items that belonged to Yoni Netanyahu from army buddy, but some items may never have belonged to famed Entebbe raid leader
By ToI Staff and JTA
Israeli tourists visit the tower at Entebbe Airport where hostages were held captive in 1976, on February 14, 2019 (Screen grab via NTV)
February 15, 2019, 4:38 pm
Israel brings tourists to Entebbe for first time since legendary hostage rescue
Captain says he remembers hearing the news of 1976 raid when he was a 10-year-old, never believed he would fly to same Ugandan airport
By ToI Staff
The memorial ceremony marking the second anniversary of the death of Shimon Peres, Israel’s ninth president, August 31, 2018 (Flash 90)
August 31, 2018, 6:21 pm
Two years after death, Peres remembered as visionary who strived to unite nation
Youngest passenger from Entebbe hostage rescue hails the late leader’s role in organizing the operation: ‘Because of you I built a family’
By ToI Staff
A still from '7 Days in Entebbe.' (YouTube)
March 2, 2018, 7:46 pm
New ‘Entebbe’ hijacked by heavy-handed political correctness
Action flick ‘7 Days in Entebbe’ disregards historical record to equalize the two sides’s struggles — choosing as its unlikely hero a German terrorist with a heart of gold
By Jordan Hoffman
Brazilian director Jose Padilha attends a press conference for the film "7 Days in Entebbe" presented in competition during the 68th Berlinale film festival on February 19, 2018 in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / Stefanie Loos)
February 20, 2018, 2:10 am
In new film, Jewish director challenges Israeli version of 1976 Entebbe rescue
Jose Padilha casts Yoni Netanyahu in less-than-heroic light, tells story from terrorists’ perspective in movie likely to spark controversy
By Michael Bachner
PLO chief Yasser Arafat, in keffiyah, photographed by an Israeli sniper, leaving Beirut in 1982 (courtesy Oded Shamir)
January 26, 2018, 9:45 am
Mossad chose not to nab Mengele, didn’t hunt down Munich terrorists, book claims
Ronen Bergman’s new study of Israel’s decades of targeted assassinations is filled with fresh disclosures and myth-busting revelations. These are just a few
By David Horovitz
Shimon Peres during an interview in the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, April 10, 2013. (Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images/JTA)
September 12, 2017, 2:55 am
Peres memoir to be released as Israel marks year since death
Completed weeks before his death, posthumously published autobiography details the former president’s journey from his small Polish village to the halls of Israeli power
By Jonah Mandel
Then-prime minister Shimon Peres meets with the Nahal Brigade on October 16, 1986. (Gil Ne'eh/Bamahane/Defense Ministry Archives)
September 28, 2016, 5:32 pm
Peres, a man of peace, made Israel a military powerhouse
By bringing fighter jets and, allegedly, nuclear weapons to the Jewish state, Shimon Peres gave the tiny country the tools to survive
By Judah Ari Gross
Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara surrounded by IDF pilots and officers (blurred out), in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 5, 2016, 2:33 pm
Cry, the beloved airport
While one paper gushes over Netanyahu’s visit to Entebbe so much that it accidentally publishes a censored photo, others focus on possible faux pas by the prime minister
By Joshua Davidovich
Marlene Moskovitz (left) and her sister Martine Arnold at Entebbe for the 40th anniversary ceremony of the Israeli hostage rescue on July 4, 2016. Their brother Jean-Jacques was one of the four hostages who didn't make it back home. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2016, 9:16 pm
At Entebbe, with the relatives of two who never made it back home
For most of the hostages, the legendary raid in 1976 constituted a miraculous ending. Not for the families of Jean-Jacques Maimoni and Dora Bloch
By Raphael Ahren
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog on March 28, 2016. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 4, 2016, 6:55 pm
Herzog snipes at Netanyahu for ‘fleeing’ to Africa
Opposition leader accuses prime minister of skipping town in the midst of political and security crises
By ToI Staff
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