Entebbe Rescue Operation

The dictator in the terminal: Idi Amin and the Entebbe hostage crisis, 50 years on

DIPLOMATIC AFFAIRS: Half a century after one of the most daring Israeli rescue operations, what were Ugandan President Idi Amin's movements and thoughts?

UGANDAN PRESIDENT Idi Amin wanted the world to see a mediator. The Israeli archive records the week when that mask began to slip.
 THE THREE Netanyahu brothers (from L): Benjamin, Yoni and Iddo.

50 years after Operation Entebbe, Israel honors fallen commander Yoni Netanyahu

DORON ALMOG HAS served as chairman of The Jewish Agency since 2022.

Life story that goes beyond Entebbe: 'I swore near his burnt tank to never leave a soldier behind'

An Israeli hostage is greeted on her return to Israel after Operation Entebbe on 3rd July 1976, in which, Israeli special forces rescued 100 hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine following their hijack of Air France Flight 139.

Sorin Hershko, soldier most severely wounded in Entebbe, honored on operation's 50th anniversary


The photo we could not take

As Israel celebrates its 70th year of independence, now is the time for Israel’s leadership to overcome the walls that divide us and to become the Jewish homeland that we hope for and need it to be.

A general view shows Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City

Rivlin, Blair remember Peres at state memorial on Mount Herzl

Tony Blair, who was the last speaker after Rivlin and Chemi Peres, began his address by saying: “We miss him don’t we. I know I do.”

President Reuven Rivlin at a state ceremoy on Mount Herzl to mark the first anniversary of the death of his predecessor Shimon Peres, September 14, 2017.

Peres memoir sheds new light on Israel's most famous military operation

In an excerpt from ‘No Room for Small Dreams’ by Shimon Peres, the late president recalls – while serving as defense minister – plotting the daring raid on Entebbe

SHIMON PERES reads ‘The Jerusalem Post’ in January 1987.

Peres’s new autobiography looks back at decades of accomplishments

Shimon Peres endured several defeats and disappointments in his lifetime, but generally preferred to come up with new ideas and look forward rather than brood over what was or what might have been.

Shimon and Sonia Peres with their three children on November 15, 1958