TIME spoke to historian Saul David, author of the leading book about the Entebbe raid, to sort the fact from the fiction. In 1976, an Air France airplane carrying 250 passengers to Paris from Tel Aviv ...

In 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight that was flying between Tel Aviv and Athens and on its way to Paris. The terrorists diverted the flight first to Libya and then ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raphael Ahren is a former diplomatic correspondent at The Times of Israel. ENTEBBE AIRPORT, Uganda — Israel’s 1976 operation to rescue over 100 hostages from terrorist hijackers in Entebbe proved to ...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday paid tribute to the commandos who stormed an airport terminal in Uganda airport to free more than 100 hostages in what became known as the Raid on ...

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 ...

Acclaimed producers Tim Bevan and Kate Solomon didn’t set out to become experts in cinematic depictions of real-life terrorism; it just turned out that way. Ten years after bringing the ...

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 ...

Ugandan Captain Reverend Isaac Bakka tells the BBC about the day of the Israeli raid in 1976 to free more than 100 hostages from Entebbe airport as Israel's foreign minister lays a wreath to remember ...