

Operation Thunderbolt (Mivtsa Yonatan)
In July 1976, an Air France flight from Tel-Aviv to Paris via Athens was hijacked and forced to land in Entebbe, Uganda. The Jewish passengers were separated and held hostage in demand to release many terrorists held in Israeli prisons. After much debate, the Israeli government sent an elite commando unit to raid the airfield and release the hostages.














4 November 1929, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]

18 January 1931, Tel Aviv, Israel

October 22, 1934 in Jerusalem, Israel

23 March 1944, Israel

23 November 1945, Moshav Nahalal, British Mandate of Palestine [now Israel]

September 3, 1937 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France

24 May 1952, Wels, Upper Austria, Austria

November 2, 1933 in Tel Aviv, Israel

22 July 1939, Haifa, Palestine [now Israel]

December 10, 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]

March 2, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Israel
