Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you are going to make yet another movie about Israel’s brave and heroic rescue of the hostages during the 1976 hijacking of an ...

I was 12 or 13 years old, watching “Raid on Entebbe” at my Jewish summer camp. It was one of three movies about the daring Israeli mission to rescue 248 hostages being held at the Uganda airport by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TIME spoke to historian Saul David, author of the leading book about the Entebbe raid, to sort the fact from the fiction. In 1976, ...

The Israeli Prime Minister has always maintained that his brother played a heroic role in a historic 1976 hostage crisis, but director Jose Padilha’s drama tells a different story. By Tatiana Siegel ...

Operation Thunderbolt: Flight 139 and the Raid on Entebbe by noted historian Saul David keeps readers glued to the page in a definitive account of the IDF operation. Mention the name Entebbe and the ...

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 ...

On June 27, 1976, on Air France Flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, four hijackers from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – including two German revolutionaries – took guns out ...

Michel Cojot-Goldberg acted as go-between for the hijackers and passengers, and his actions saved almost all the hostages The forthcoming film Entebbe, starring Daniel Brühl and Rosamund Pike, will ...