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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
African migrants walk out of the Holot detention center in the Negev desert in southern Israel, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2015. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
September 3, 2017, 1:39 pm
In Uganda, deported migrants accuse Israel of ‘trafficking in refugees’
As the High Court approves the ongoing 'willing deportation' of African would-be refugees, some of those who already left express their bewilderment and trauma
By Melanie Lidman
Gershom Sizomu, religious leader of the Abayudaya, in 2003. (Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/JTA)
July 24, 2017, 10:35 am
Uganda’s Jews are down to one meal a day because of East Africa famine
The enduring hunger is devastating, but lacks the spectacle that spurred American Jewish communities to raise millions after disasters in Haiti and Nepal
By Ben Sales
Drought in Somalia January 2017 (Screen capture: YouTube)
January 30, 2017, 1:03 am
17 million face hunger in Horn of Africa due to drought
No food across broad swaths of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Djibouti, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda
By AFP
David Steiner made the award-winning documentary “Saving Barbara Sizemore,” about efforts to save a charter school in Chicago. (Facebook)
December 28, 2016, 11:37 pm
Chicago filmmaker, activist David Steiner dies in Uganda bus crash
Creator of the award-winning documentary 'Saving Barbara Sizemore' passes at age 51
By JTA
October 22, 2016, 12:58 am
On Sukkot, bringing Uganda home
In huts pieced together from cardboard boxes, a reminder of the harsh reality a flimsy dwelling represents
By Shani Rosenbaum
South Sudanese government forces ride on a vehicle, January 12, 2014. (AP/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin, File)
September 23, 2016, 7:23 am
High Court hears arguments against spy tech sales to South Sudan
Meretz MK Zandberg behind case to prevent Israeli 'surveillance weapons' from being used against political dissidents; details of the trial under gag order
By Judah Ari Gross
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
Clockwise from top left: Sarah Nabaggala, Yonatan Loukato, Samuel Matiya Kigondere, Yoash Mayende and Shoshana Nambi were among 13 Ugandan Jews who worked as staff members at Reform Jewish summer camps in the United States. (Jill Peltzman for the URJ/via JTA)
August 27, 2016, 9:00 pm
Summer camp ambassadors: Ugandan Jews meet America’s kids
Despite disappointment that they don't have pet lions, African Jewish counselors teach gratitude and broaden Jewish youth's perspectives
By Ben Sales
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu observes the Jordan Valley with IDF officers during a tour in 2011 (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
July 27, 2016, 7:48 pm
Ya’alon: Netanyahu was prepared to cede Jordan Valley
Likud party spars with former defense minister after he claims PM was willing to part with strategic area in peace deal
By Ilan Ben Zion
Spiritual leader Alex Armah (center) with community members at shacharit (morning) service at Tifereth Israel Synagogue, House of Israel Jewish Community. New Adiembra, Ghana. February 2014. (Courtesy Jono David)
July 24, 2016, 9:05 pm
Long isolated, Africa’s Jewish ‘islands’ bridged by photographer’s lens
Jono David, 50, completes a 4-year project capturing emerging African Jewish communities, now being shown at Tel Aviv's Beit Hatfutsot Museum
By Melanie Lidman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signs a guest book at the presidential compound in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 7, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 8, 2016, 2:52 pm
In Africa, Lion King Bibi begins to outroar the Palestinians
Offering high-tech and security know-how in return for diplomatic support, Netanyahu was welcomed like a superpower chief
By Raphael Ahren
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
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara during a visit in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 04, 2016 (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 5, 2016, 2:07 am
In Kenya, PM says Africa trip will help rebuild world majority for Israel
It might take a decade, but Jewish state will succeed in swaying global voting patterns in its favor, Netanyahu says
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with leaders from Africa, in Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 2016. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
July 5, 2016, 12:36 am
In first, Tanzania to open embassy in Israel
Netanyahu hails 'milestone' summit with East African leaders in Uganda
By TOI staff
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