Amir Ofer is a businessman from Mevaseret Zion who, in July 1976, participated in the heroic rescue of over one hundred Israeli hostages from the Entebbe Airport in Uganda.
Forty-five years later, at an Ivri Lider rock concert, he met and subsequently befriended a young officer from the YAMAM, the Israeli Border Police’s elite counter-terrorism unit. That officer was Arnon Zmora who, exactly a year ago, was the sole Israeli casualty of yet another heroic rescue operation in Nuseirat, Gaza, which successfully freed four living hostages: Noa Argmani, Shlomi Ziv, Almog Meir Jan and Andrey Kozlov.
In today’s episode, Amir speaks about their unlikely and remarkable intergenerational friendship.
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