TIME spoke to historian Saul David, author of the leading book about the Entebbe raid, to sort the fact from the fiction. In 1976, an Air France airplane carrying 250 passengers to Paris from Tel Aviv ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Raphael Ahren is a former diplomatic correspondent at The Times of Israel. ENTEBBE AIRPORT, Uganda — Israel’s 1976 operation to rescue over 100 hostages from terrorist hijackers in Entebbe proved to ...

In 1976, Palestinian and German terrorists hijacked an Air France flight that was flying between Tel Aviv and Athens and on its way to Paris. The terrorists diverted the flight first to Libya and then ...

Before the Israeli military got bogged down in wars in Lebanon and Gaza, it compiled an unbeatable record — a triumphant war for independence in 1948; the Six-Day War of 1967 that vanquished its ...

IT'S too early to tell what exactly happened on board the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli commandos killed at least nine protestors this morning. The Israelis say they were attacked by passengers armed ...

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 ...

Almost 40 years ago, Israeli commandos stunned the world when they pulled off a seemingly impossible mission – to rescue more than 100 hostages held by pro-Palestinian terrorists at Entebbe airport in ...

Nothing tests the mettle of an American president more than being forced to make the supremely consequential decision to send America’s sons and daughters into harm’s way. Like his recent predecessors ...