Netanyahu honors brother Yoni, who fell rescuing hostages at Entebbe Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu was killed during "Operation Thunderbolt" to rescue 102 hostages at Entebbe, Uganda, on July 4, 1976. July 5, 2024
‘At the level of Entebbe’ The military’s growing control of Gaza created conditions for the daring daylight hostage rescue in Nuseirat • Terrorists fired waves of RPGs at the extraction force from civilian areas. Yaakov Lappin June 9, 2024
Germany’s ‘Holocaust guilt’ is shaken by Hamas pogrom It’s painfully clear that the country’s well-meaning politicians are dealing with a genuine resurgence of antisemitism they cannot control. Ben Cohen Nov. 10, 2023
Israeli leaders speak out on Memorial Day “We must do everything to safeguard this shared home,” said Israeli President Isaac Herzog. Rachel Avraham April 25, 2023
A half-shekel, a whole people Whether in Israel or the Diaspora, we are one community, and if we don’t look after each other, who will? Rabbi Yossy Goldman Feb. 15, 2023
The enduring message of the rescue at Entebbe Forty-five years on, the memory of those two overwhelmingly intense July days needs to be conveyed to new generations as an object lesson in Zionism and the need for a Jewish state. Daniel S. Mariaschin July 1, 2021
Reflections on ‘aliyah’ I was smitten almost instantly with Israel for not emulating the aspects of the United States that made me want to abscond in the first place. Ruthie Blum July 14, 2020
The French pilot who stayed with his Jewish passengers at Entebbe The death of Air France pilot Michael Bacos, whose plane from Israel was hijacked to Uganda, reminds us that the anti-Semitism is a choice that the righteous can choose to reject. Jonathan S. Tobin March 27, 2019
A need to reconnect the Diaspora with Israeli Jews As my family made it into the absorption center of Netanya later that afternoon, they heard the announcement that Lt. Col. Yonatan (“Yoni”) Netanyahu had succumbed to his wounds on the plane. It was that same day when my father chose that name for me. Yoni Michanie July 5, 2018
