“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 ...

The story of the daring 1976 Israeli military raid to rescue 106 hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, following the hijacking of a French passenger jet has already been the subject of three previous features ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It was perhaps the most daring Israeli military exploit ever — a rescue raid in Africa that inspired Hollywood films and became etched in Israeli history. Nearly four decades ...

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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 Air France jet en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, it would be wise to ...

One of 100 Israeli special forces who descended upon an airport in Uganda to rescue more than 100 hostages was in Vacaville Tuesday night. Sasson Reuven, who was a 21-year-old Israel Defense Forces ...

The story of the daring 1976 Israeli military raid to rescue 106 hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, following the hijacking of a French passenger jet has already been the subject of three previous features ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - An Israeli family reunion at Ben Gurion Airport after the Israeli raid on a hijacked Air France plane that had been ...

A member of the commando unit that took part in the legendary Raid on Entebbe is coming to Vacaville to tell his story. The June 28 event, which starts at 7 p.m. at Vacaville’s Chabad of Solano County ...

A French pilot remembered as a hero for his actions in the hijacking of an Air France plane to Uganda’s Entebbe airport in 1976 died Tuesday at 95. Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi said in a statement ...

Rabbi Albert Gabbai remembers exactly where he was on July 4, 1976: in Manhattan, watching a parade of boats floating down the Hudson River, American flag in hand, celebrating the bicentennial of the ...

Former Israeli military chief Dan Shomron, who commanded the famed 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe, Uganda, died in a Tel Aviv hospital Tuesday after a stroke, a hospital official said. He was 70.