As expected, on July 4, 1976, the United States celebrated its bicentennial with a flurry of patriotic pride and hype. The surprise was that the day also brought one of the most miraculous events in ...

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 ...

The 1976 hijacking of an Air France flight full of French and Israeli nationals and the one-shot-in-a-million rescue that then ensued has already inspired a documentary, two made-for-TV movies and one ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Chabad of Charleston is hosting a speaker on Israel's Entebbe Rescue Mission on Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. at the Center for Jewish Life in Mount Pleasant. Major Rami Sherman, who was the operations ...

ENTEBBE, Uganda (Reuters) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began an African tour on Monday, attending a memorial service at Entebbe airport in Uganda where his commando brother was killed ...

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.

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Daniel Bruhl and Rosamund Pike play German radicals in Jose Padilha's thriller '7 Days in Entebbe,' about the 1976 Israeli rescue of hostages from a hijacked Air France flight diverted to Uganda. By ...

Until its jaw-dropping flame-out in the final 10 minutes, “7 Days in Entebbe” is a tense and gripping historical thriller, recreating the terrorist hijacking of an Air France airliner in 1976 and the ...