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The Israeli military suffered five wounded and one killed; Yonatan Netanyahu was Israel's sole fatality of Operation Entebbe, and had led Sayeret Matkal during the rescue effort – he was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, who would later become Israel's prime minister. [21]
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu [a] (March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) 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 civilian passenger flight from Israel to France by Palestinian and German militants, who took control of the aircraft during a stopover in Greece and diverted it to Libya ...
1967 photograph of Netanyahu by the Israel Defense Forces. Netanyahu was born in 1949 in Tel Aviv. [3] [4] His mother, Tzila Segal (1912–2000), was born in Petah Tikva in the Ottoman Empire's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, and his father, Warsaw-born Benzion Netanyahu (né Mileikowsky; 1910–2012), was a historian specializing in the Jewish Golden age of Spain.
The Israeli officer who led the raid, Yonatan Netanyahu, the older brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, died in the operation. Entebbe was nearly 50 years ago, and confronting ...
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story is a 2012 American documentary film written by Jonathan Gruber, who co-directed the film with Ari Daniel Pinchot.The film documents the life and death of IDF officer Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu, a member of Sayeret Matkal and the elder brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [1]
Benjamin Netanyahu – unit team leader, current Prime Minister of Israel. [17] Iddo Netanyahu – writer and radiologist. Benjamin Netanyahu's younger brother. [17] Yonatan Netanyahu – unit commander, killed in Operation Entebbe. Benjamin Netanyahu and Iddo Netanyahu's older brother. [17]
“The Bibi Files,” directed by Alexis Bloom, is an extraordinary and essential documentary. It follows the corruption scandal that has engulfed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu like a ...