Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you are going to make yet another movie about Israel’s brave and heroic rescue of the hostages during the 1976 hijacking of an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TIME spoke to historian Saul David, author of the leading book about the Entebbe raid, to sort the fact from the fiction. In 1976, ...

For Israelis, the Fourth of July is not only the Independence Day of our American friend and ally, but also the anniversary of the IDF’s famed 1976 raid on Entebbe. With the hostages freed, the ...

The story of the daring 1976 Israeli military raid to rescue 106 hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, following the hijacking of a French passenger jet has already been the subject of three previous features ...

A member of the commando unit that took part in the legendary Raid on Entebbe is coming to Vacaville to tell his story. The June 28 event, which starts at 7 p.m. at Vacaville’s Chabad of Solano County ...

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One of 100 Israeli special forces who descended upon an airport in Uganda to rescue more than 100 hostages was in Vacaville Tuesday night. Sasson Reuven, who was a 21-year-old Israel Defense Forces ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It was perhaps the most daring Israeli military exploit ever — a rescue raid in Africa that inspired Hollywood films and became etched in Israeli history. Nearly four decades ...

The Israeli Prime Minister has always maintained that his brother played a heroic role in a historic 1976 hostage crisis, but director Jose Padilha’s drama tells a different story. By Tatiana Siegel ...

THE STORY SO FAR . . . On June 27, 1976, an Air France plane carrying 248 passengers was hijacked en route to Paris from Tel Aviv, Israel and diverted to Entebbe. With just a few hours to the expiry ...