The surprise was that the day also brought one of the most miraculous events in Jewish history: Israel’s rescue of 102 hostages being held over 2,500 miles away at an airport in Entebbe ...

Israel launched the most daring, complicated, long range, logistically challenging and political volatile hostage rescue in ...

(JTA) – In “7 Days in Entebbe,” which hits ... The movie, about the 1976 Israeli rescue operation that freed the mainly Jewish and Israeli hostages of a hijacked plane in Uganda, focuses ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his brother Ido participated in the memorial ceremony for their brother, Lt.-Col. Yoni Netanyahu, who fell during the hostage rescue mission at Entebbe in 1976.

There should be a deal when we know that all the hostages will be released." He continued, "Yoni Netanyahu went to rescue Jews in Entebbe, when he went to rescue them he rescued them all - he did ...