The raid on Entebbe — the 1976 rescue operation ... was then a team leader in Sayeret Matkal, wrote in the book that he almost had the operation called off but was stopped by car trouble.

He eventually led the military's leaders to devise the daring plan that would fly a commando team to the airport at Entebbe ... counter-strike," David writes. Operation Thunderbolt succeeds ...

The Entebbe raid was a result of the hijacking ... According to the new book “Operation Thunderbolt” written by British military historian and broadcaster Saul David, Kenya’s involvement ...

When the Entebbe operation took place ... But as the scholar Daniel Boyarin has argued in a series of books contrasting Jewish and Christian hero stories, that martyr narrative is more a Christian ...

Israel is commemorating four decades since the daring rescue operation in Entebbe, Uganda ... About the Author Tuvia Book has a doctorate in education and is the author and illustrator of the ...

After an Air France flight carrying 258 passengers and crew from Tel Aviv to Paris was hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Uganda’s Entebbe airport in 1976 ...

The rescue, also known as Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt, involved an Air France plane flying from Tel Aviv to Paris, which was hijacked by members of a Palestinian terrorist cell ...

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