Yoni Netanyahu

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely, left, Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Reuven Azman, right, and Kyiv resident Felix Gelfer, a Ukrainian Jew who was circumcised earlier in the day in honor of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 20, 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

August 20, 2019, 4:38 pm

Ukrainian Jewish man, 70, undergoes circumcision in honor of Netanyahu visit

At event for Jewish community, PM meets septuagenarian Felix Gelfer, who took the Hebrew name Yonatan after Netanyahu’s late IDF commando brother

By Raphael Ahren

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 Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (back to camera) welcoming the rescued Air France passengers and crew including pilot Michel Bacos (left) coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben Gurion Airport, July, 1976 (Moshe Milner, Israel Government Press Office)

March 27, 2019, 1:38 pm

French pilot who stayed with hijacked Israelis, Jews at Entebbe dies aged 95

Tributes pour in for Michel Bacos, who refused the terrorists’ offer of release and, with his crew, remained captive with the plane’s Jewish hostages

By TOI staff

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

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

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

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

President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

September 25, 2016, 4:43 pm

Rivlin: With Hebron shooter trial, Israel faces ‘abyss’

Hours after Netanyahu apologizes for apparently comparing Elor Azaria and fallen soldiers, president urges troops to listen to army orders

By TOI staff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at UN headquarters in New York City, September 22, 2016. (Amir Levy/Flash90)

September 25, 2016, 10:41 am

PM retracts comparison of Hebron shooter to fallen soldiers

Netanyahu scrambles to clarify that he was misunderstood in commenting on serviceman on trial for manslaughter

By Stuart Winer

Michael Levin at his IDF swearing-in ceremony (Lone Soldier Center)

August 11, 2016, 7:55 am

The American-born lone soldier who out-Israelied the Israelis

How Michael Levin, who was killed 10 years ago on a Lebanese hillside, changed the Israel Defense Forces from within, by both inspiring and enabling thousands of lone soldiers to bring their passion for Israel into its ranks

By Joel Chasnoff

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a state ceremony commemorating 40 years since Operation Entebbe, July 10, 2016. (Haim Zach/GPO)

July 11, 2016, 2:28 am

Netanyahu at Entebbe memorial: We fight terror fearlessly

Marking 40 years since the mission, PM called it ‘the most impressive hostage rescue operation in history’

By TOI staff

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

Sara Netanyahu nudges her husband, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he apparently nods off at a memorial service to mark the 40th anniversary of Israel's raid to rescue hostages at Entebbe airport in Uganda on July 4, 2016, which his brother Yoni was killed. (screen capture: Channel 10)

July 4, 2016, 5:07 pm

PM nods off at Entebbe memorial, earning wifely poke

Netanyahu appears to sneak a few moments of shut-eye during reading of names of victims of 1976 raid

By 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