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    Tel Aviv Entebbe Athens The Entebbe raid or Operation Entebbe, officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt (retroactively codenamed Operation Yonatan)...
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    Entebbe is a city in Central Uganda which is located on Lake Victoria peninsula, approximately 36 kilometres (22 mi) southwest of the Ugandan capital...
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    Old Entebbe airport is used by Uganda's military forces. It was the scene of a hostage rescue operation by Israeli Sayeret Matkal, dubbed Operation Entebbe...
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  • Operation Thunderbolt, known in Israel as Mivtsa Yonatan (מבצע יונתן‎, literally "Operation Jonathan"), also called Entebbe: Operation Thunderbolt in the...
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  • Burke. The film recounts the story of the Entebbe raid, a 1976 counter-terrorist hostage-rescue operation, and stars Rosamund Pike and Daniel Brühl....
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  • Yonatan Netanyahu (category Operation Entebbe)
    was an Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal during the Entebbe raid. The raid was launched in response to the 1976 hijacking of an international...
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  • released in Europe. Victory at Entebbe is based on the actual event Operation Entebbe, the raid on Entebbe Airport (now Entebbe International Airport) in Uganda...
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  • Raid on Entebbe is a 1977 NBC television film directed by Irvin Kershner. It is based on the Entebbe raid, an Israeli military operation to free hostages...
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    rescuing 102 passengers and crew of a hijacked Air France aircraft at Entebbe, Uganda. The Paratroopers force, led by Col. Matan Vilnai, was tasked with...
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    July 1976, came the unit's most famous mission when it spearheaded Operation Entebbe to rescue hostages held in Uganda by at least six Palestinians and...
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    of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) during Operation Entebbe, a hostage rescue mission carried out at Entebbe Airport. Formed in the early 1970s from networks...
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  • inspiration from two real-life events; the flight 847 hijacking and Operation Entebbe. Below are a key elements from both real-life and film. The hijacked...
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  • Brigitte Kuhlmann (category Operation Entebbe)
    English). She was killed by the Israel Defense Forces in Entebbe, Uganda, during Operation Entebbe. Kuhlmann was born in 1947 and studied pedagogy in Hannover...
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    leader Idi Amin with Israel that ended with Operation Entebbe known as the "Entebbe Rescue" or "Entebbe Raid" of 1976. The small Abayudaya tribe converted...
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    nearly all major operations, including the Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War, the War of Attrition, the Yom Kippur War, Operation Entebbe, the 1978 South Lebanon...
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  • Murder of Dora Bloch (category Operation Entebbe)
    the other hostages, and so was not freed during the Operation Entebbe raid. During Operation Entebbe, Bloch's family in Israel were taken to the HaKirya...
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    group. He was shot at close range. For Operation Entebbe in 1976, Mossad provided intelligence regarding Entebbe International Airport and extensively...
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    the operation's starting point, this was the most distant publicly known action undertaken by the Israel Defense Forces since Operation Entebbe in 1976...
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    support for PFLP-EO and RZ hijackers in 1976, leading to Israel's Operation Entebbe. He then attempted to annex Tanzania's Kagera Region in 1978. The...
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    major military operations—including the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, 1956 Suez Crisis, 1967 Six-Day War, 1973 Yom Kippur War, 1976 Operation Entebbe, 1982 Lebanon...
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  • The Last King of Scotland (film) (category Operation Entebbe)
    later, Israeli Forces stormed Entebbe and liberated all but one of the hostages", three hostages died during Operation Entebbe. The body of a fourth hostage...
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  • Wilfried Böse (category Operation Entebbe)
    hijacking of Air France Flight 139, that led to his death in Entebbe, Uganda during the Israeli operation to free the hostages. Ilan Hartuv, one of the surviving...
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  • alleged participation in the rescue of the Israeli hostages in the Operation Entebbe) is less publicized. Wegener was the GSG 9 commander at the liberation...
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    Benny Peled (category Operation Entebbe)
    commander of the Israeli Air Force during the Yom Kippur War and Operation Entebbe. He retired with the rank of Aluf (major general). He was born Binyamin...
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    head the Southern Command. He was the commander of the Operation Entebbe, the 1976 raid at Entebbe airport in Uganda. In 1978, he went to the United States...
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    Peter de la Billière (Director of the SAS) proposed an operation similar to Operation Entebbe, which consisted of landing 55 SAS soldiers in two Lockheed...
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    leading the hostage-rescue mission at Operation Entebbe. In addition to having taken part in counter-terrorist operations during his service in the military...
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    participated in Operation Entebbe. Netanyahu, elder brother to current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, was killed during the operation. After completing...
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    Dan Shomron (category Operation Entebbe)
    Corps and Paratroopers Brigade of the IDF. He planned and commanded Operation Entebbe in 1976, during which Yonatan Netanyahu (brother of Prime Minister...
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  • Rise and Fall of Idi Amin (category Operation Entebbe)
    Rise and Fall of Idi Amin, also known as Amin: The Rise and Fall, is a 1981 biographical film directed by Sharad Patel and starring Joseph Olita as Idi...
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