Entebbe raid
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The Entebbe raid, also known as Operation Entebbe and officially codenamed Operation Thunderbolt, was a 3 July 1976 Israeli counter-terrorist mission in Uganda. It was launched in response to the hija
Israeli commandos with a Mercedes-Benz 600 resembling the one owned by Ugandan dictator Idi Amin, used by Sayeret Matkal to deceive Ugandan troops during the raid
F-BVGG, the Air France Airbus A300 involved, in February 1976
Aerial photo of the city of Entebbe and the Entebbe International Airport at sunset
A 1994 photograph of the old terminal with a U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules parked in front. Bullet holes from the 1976 raid are still visible.
Murder of Dora Bloch
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Dora Bloch was an Israeli hostage on Air France Flight 139 on 26 June 1976. Taking off from Tel Aviv, Israel, and destined for Paris, France, the plane soon landed in Athens, Greece, for a scheduled s
Entebbe raid
…and killed all the hijackers alongside 45 Ugandan soldiers, while destroying 11 Ugandan fighter jets. Three hostages died during the raid, and a fourth—Dora Bloch, who had been taken to a Kampala hospital prior to the rescue—was subsequently murdered by Ugandan authorities. Sayeret Matkal unit commander Yonatan…
Bloch in 1971
Bloch's son Ilan Hartuv, with whom she had been travelling, 1976
Burial of Dora Bloch, Jerusalem, 1979
Har HaMenuchot, the Jewish cemetery where Bloch is buried, 2010