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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
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
A fire rages at the scene of a suicide bombing in the Muslim holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia on Monday, July 4, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
July 4, 2016, 1:51 pm
Police probing Netanyahu over foreign money, report says
Tanzania announces it will open an embassy in Israel, as PM meets African leaders in Uganda
By Elie Leshem
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
Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara speaking to the press at Ben Gurion International Airport on July 4, 2016, at the start of a trip to Africa. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)
July 4, 2016, 8:32 am
Heading to Entebbe, PM looks to mark raid while boosting Africa ties
Boarding plane for Uganda, Netanyahu says 'all Africa excited' for historic four-nation swing, coming 40 years after his brother was killed in daring hostage rescue
By Raphael Ahren
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walks out of a C-130 Hercules aircraft, used in the raid to release Israeli hostages held at Entebbe airport in Uganda in 1976, during a visit to Hatzerim Air base near Beersheba in 2009. (Photo by Edi Israel/Flash90)
July 3, 2016, 5:35 pm
PM heading off on historic (and expensive?) Africa trip
Netanyahu leaves Monday to visit 4 countries in 4 days, at a cost of NIS 12.5m; he will commemorate Entebbe rescue in which his brother was killed
By Raphael Ahren
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