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THE STORY SO FAR . . . On June 27, 1976, an Air France plane carrying 248 passengers was hijacked en route to Paris from Tel Aviv, Israel and diverted to Entebbe. With just a few hours to the expiry ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Electronics expert Sid Hurwich; Invention used in Entebbe raid (Photo by Dave Norris/Toronto Star via Getty Images) In 1976, ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday paid tribute to the commandos who stormed an airport terminal in Uganda airport to free more than 100 hostages in what became known as the Raid on ...

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, ...

For the first time since 1976’s hostage crisis and subsequent Israeli commando raid, an Israeli plane carrying tourists landed Thursday at Uganda’s Entebbe Airport. Some 250 Israeli nationals came to ...