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July 6, 2016

What Entebbe Gave the Jews

No longer alone.

Monday marked the 40th anniversary of the heroic Israeli operation to free some 100 hostages held by German and Palestinian terrorists at the Entebbe airport in Uganda. In the course of the operation, its commanding officer, Jonathan (Yoni) Netanyahu, brother of the current prime minister, lost his life. Fiamma Nirenstein reflects on the raid’s significance:

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