Fifty years ago, the passengers of Air France Flight 139 boarded what they thought would be a routine flight to Paris. However, during a layover in Athens, Muslim terrorists hijacked the plane, diverting it to Uganda, where the passengers were held hostage. After a week of intense planning, the IDF launched one of the boldest hostage rescue missions in history, thousands of miles from Israel.
Israeli commandos launched a daring raid on Entebbe Airport, storming the heavily guarded terminal, killing the hijackers, and rescuing over 100 hostages in a mission that stunned the world. Lt.-Col. Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s older brother, was killed while commanding one of the most daring hostage rescue missions in modern history.
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