SECURITYJun 27 · 07:51 UTCTIMES OF ISRAEL

‘Operation Thunderbolt’: 50 years to the heroic raid on Entebbe

The article commemorates the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Israeli military operation to rescue over 100 hostages from Entebbe Airport in Uganda. It references the 1977 Israeli film 'Operation Thunderbolt,' which dramatized the real-life IDF rescue mission conducted a year earlier.

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