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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 ...
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 ]
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]
The part of the biography that was important was around Yoni Netanyahu, his brother, and his brother’s death and the launching of Netanyahu’s career as “Mr. Security,” as the expert ...
Iddo Netanyahu (Hebrew: עדו נתניהו; born July 24, 1952) is an Israeli physician, author, and playwright. He is the younger brother of Benjamin Netanyahu , the Prime Minister of Israel , and Yonatan Netanyahu , a highly decorated soldier who was killed leading the Entebbe raid , a hostage rescue mission in 1976.
Three hostages died during the operation and 10 were wounded; seven hijackers, 45 Ugandan soldiers, and one Israeli soldier, Yoni Netanyahu, were killed. A fourth hostage, 75-year-old Dora Bloch, who had been taken to Mulago Hospital in Kampala prior to the rescue operation, was subsequently murdered in reprisal.
Netanyahu appeared to downplay the prospect of a deal Sunday. "In recent days, as Israel has been holding intensive negotiations with the mediator in a supreme effort to reach a deal, Hamas is ...
Netanyahu has repeatedly vowed to respond to Iran’s attack last Tuesday, which saw almost 200 ballistic missiles fired at Israel. UK facing heightened threat of ‘plot after plot’ from Iran.