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 ...

Have you ever come out of a movie and wanted to go right to the ticket counter to get your money back? That was my first reaction after paying too much, or for that matter, paying anything, to see the ...

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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, ...

Operation Thunderbolt ranks as one of the most dramatic events in the brief history of the State of Israel. The miraculous story of Israeli commandos flying literally under the radar to liberate ...

On June 27, 1976, a group affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked an Air France plane carrying 248 passengers and crew from Tel Aviv to Paris. Their plan was to ...

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 ...

“7 Days in Entebbe” is, as its name suggests, a pretty conventional ticktock of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jetliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris by members of the Popular Front for the ...

In the preliminary military assessments ahead of the 1976 Operation Entebbe, then-IDF chief of staff Motta Gur initially voiced opposition to the mission, citing insufficient intelligence, according ...

PM Netanyahu's brother Yoni led Operation Entebbe and was the only one of the fighters to be killed during the mission. Ten soldiers from the Amnon team who fought under Yoni Netanyahu's leadership in ...

Jose Padilha's 7 Days in Entebbe opens with a galvanizing flurry of activity. But the bustle is not the 1976 airliner hijacking that begins the main story, or the Israeli commando raid that concludes ...