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Five-year-old Ella Rosenkovitch is held and kissed at celebrations following the return of return of Israeli hostages from Entebbe, July 4, 1976. 'I don't know who the man in this picture is,' she says. (Courtesy)
July 4, 2026, 8:07 am
Rescued at Entebbe 50 years ago, former child hostage feels her experience resonating today
Ella Rosenkovitch was on her way to visit grandparents with her family when their flight was hijacked to Uganda by terrorists. Half a century later, the memories pushed her to speak out
By Zev Stub
A cheering crowd at Ben-Gurion Airport raises a soldier in the rescue squad that freed the hijacked hostages from Uganda earlier in the day, July 4, 1976. In the background is the C-130 transport plane which took part in the raid. The rescuer's face is obscured for security reasons. (AP Photo/Pool)
June 26, 2026, 6:00 am
‘Zero hour is coming’: How Israel went from negotiating over hostages to the daring raid at Entebbe
The Entebbe rescue operation, whose 50th anniversary is approaching, is the stuff of Israeli legend. A new trove of archival documents shows how the government took the fateful decision — despite the risks
By Ben Sales and Stav Levaton
Michel Cojot as a young man visiting New York. (From 'To Kill A Nazi,' courtesy of the Cojot family)
June 20, 2026, 9:16 am
Entebbe raid’s unsung hero gets limelight in new documentary 50 years later
Filmmaker Boaz Dvir makes case that rescue operation would not have been possible without key role played by French-Jewish hostage — and would-be assassin of a Nazi — Michel Cojot
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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
Gershom Sizomu, religious leader of the Abayudaya, in 2003. (Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
August 20, 2018, 4:30 pm
Uganda Jews head to 1st Birthright trip, part-funded by gov’t that rejects them
Many of the nearly 40 Abayudaya set to arrive Tuesday have never been to Israel before; Interior Ministry says the 2,000-strong community isn’t Jewish, but Jewish Agency says it is
By Yaakov Schwartz
Then-defense minister Shimon Peres (c), along with former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (l), meets the hostages released from Entebbe as they land in Israel on July 4, 1976. (Uri Herzl Tzchik/IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Defense Ministry Archives)
September 14, 2017, 5:51 pm
In audio released year after his death, Peres greets Entebbe hostages, rescuers
Then-defense minister heard talking with elite commandos at airport in Israel with PM Yitzhak Rabin, telling them they made the country proud
By ToI Staff
A portrait of Miriam Eshkol, the late wife of former Prime Minister Levi Eskhol in 1964. (Pridan Moshe/GPO)
November 26, 2016, 10:57 pm
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Israel’s 3rd prime minister, dies at 87
As first lady, she dedicated herself to public life, was known for taking a vocal and active role in assisting her husband
By Tamar Pileggi
Defense Minister Shimon Peres (r) with Prime Minster Yitzhak Rabin welcoming the released Entebbe hostages upon their return to Israel on July 4, 1976. (Defense Ministry Archives)
October 8, 2016, 12:54 am
Ex-IDF officer says Peres inflated role in Entebbe rescue
Amiram Levin, who attended cabinet meeting ahead of famed 1976 raid, calls late statesman ‘a crook’ who played no real part in operation
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: As part of a B'chol Lashon initiative, in anticipation of the construction of a new synagogue in Nabagoye, Uganda, the women and children there were given the honor of transferring the Torahs from the old synagogue to a temporary home. (Courtesy of Be’chol Lashon via JTA)
September 16, 2016, 5:13 am
Though eligible to come to Israel, Ugandan Jews say new local synagogue is ‘our Jerusalem’
2,000-strong community set to meet Friday for first prayer services in new house of worship — and to share it with Muslims and Christians
By Josefin Dolsten
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
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni addresses a ceremony marking 40 years since the Entebbe raid (screen capture: YouTube)
July 4, 2016, 5:55 pm
Uganda’s president declares: Israel was right to carry out Entebbe raid
At airport ceremony alongside Netanyahu, Yoweri Museveni highlights biblical ties between his own nation and Jewish state, which he bizarrely persists in calling ‘Palestine’
By Judah Ari Gross, Raphael Ahren and ToI Staff
Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gives a speech after his arrival at Entebbe airport Uganda, Monday, July 4, 2016. Netanyahu is on a four-nation Africa tour to Uganda, Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Stephen Wandera)
July 4, 2016, 4:49 pm
In Entebbe, PM says legendary rescue proved Jews ‘were powerless no more’
Netanyahu kicks off Africa visit with ceremony marking 40 years since Israeli commandos saved 103 hostages from terrorist hijackers
By Raphael Ahren
Spokesman for the Ministry of Interior Mwenda Njoka says that without Kenyan coordination, the operation at Entebbe would have been impossible. (Courtesy)
July 4, 2016, 1:45 pm
How Kenya played a vital, silent role in Entebbe, ‘the most audacious hostage rescue in history’
Nairobi’s underappreciated logistical part in Operation Entebbe cemented continued security cooperation with Israel, which is still bearing fruit today
By Lilian Muendo
Miriam Eshkol, wife of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, dancing with then Ugandan foreign minister Sam Odaka and army chief (and later president) Idi Amin on a visit to an army base outside Kampala, June, 1966. (GPO)
June 29, 2016, 7:47 pm
When the Israeli prime minister’s wife took a twirl with Idi Amin
As Netanyahu prepares for a whirlwind trip to Rwanda, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda next week, Israel releases previously unseen pictures of previous PMs’ visits to Africa
By Raphael Ahren
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