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o Uganda are weighted with sadness. It was at the airport in Entebbe that his older brother, Yonatan Netanyahu, was shot dead by a Ugandan soldier. Yonatan was the leader of an Israeli commando team dispatched by Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in July 1976 to rescue Jewish hostages held by pro-Palestinia
wish hostages held by pro-Palestinian terrorists. The terrorists had diverted an Air France flight to Uganda, where the then-dictator, the infamous Idi Amin, gave them refuge. The raid was a near-total success. The hijackers were all killed, along with dozens of Ugandan soldiers posted to the airport by
ld the unit into a military strike force — which was one reason why he urged me to bring in his older brother. Bibi was 22 at the time. His brother — Yonatan, or Yoni — was 25. He had led a company of paratroopers in the 1967 war, before going off to university. He’d taken a bullet in the elbow while helpi
the main runways. Other passengers revealed that the hijackers had placed explosives around the old terminal building. And that, despite my hope that Idi Amin would stand aside if we did decide to go in and rescue the hostages, his troops were helping to guard the area. So in addition to taking on the hija
ld the unit into a military strike force - which was one reason why he urged me to bring in his older brother. Bibi was 22 at the time. His brother - Yonatan, or Yoni - was 25. He had led a company of paratroopers in the 1967 war, before going off to university. He'd taken a bullet in the elbow while helpi
the main runways. Other passengers revealed that the hijackers had placed explosives around the old terminal building. And that, despite my hope that Idi Amin would stand aside if we did decide to go in and rescue the hostages, his troops were helping to guard the area. So in addition to taking on the hijac
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George W. Bush
PERSONLeon Black
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Saddam Hussein
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Michael Cohen
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United States
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Jerusalem
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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John F. Kennedy
PERSONUgandan
ORGANIZATIONCourtney Wild
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Lebanon
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Ehud Barak
PERSONthe Soviet Union
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Stephen Hawking
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Air France
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Mossad
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Virginia Giuffre
PERSON
Entebbe
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Cairo
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Yitzhak Rabin
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