Going in to the historical drama "7 Days in Entebbe," I'll admit to having only the vaguest notion of the events that inspired the film. I knew that a passenger plane, after taking off from Israel at ...

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 ratification of the Entebbe Agreement on the Nile River Basin by the government of South Sudan is a negative development that has aggravated tensions across the region As Ethiopia proceeds with ...

“7 Days in Entebbe” is, as its name suggests, a pretty conventional ticktock of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jetliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris by members of the Popular Front for the ...

Unless it’s complicated by something like human feeling, and a recognition of the human beings on both sides of any bloody ideological conflict, true-life heroism has a tendency to look a little ...

Rabbi Albert Gabbai remembers exactly where he was on July 4, 1976: in Manhattan, watching a parade of boats floating down the Hudson River, American flag in hand, celebrating the bicentennial of the ...

Thirty years later, the message of the daring rescue operation in Entebbe is still relevant: Jews everywhere have a responsibility for one another. JERUSALEM, June 28 (JTA) — Last month, we airmen and ...

On June 27, 1976, a group affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked an Air France plane carrying 248 passengers and crew from Tel Aviv to Paris. Their plan was to ...

If you've never heard of Entebbe you've probably never heard of what makes Entebbe famous, or why that matters. As America celebrates July 4 as the anniversary of independence, Israel and those who ...

As an Israeli, it is remarkable to me that after 200 years, the U.S. was able to celebrate its independence by reenacting the war in which it fought to gain independence. Israel, on the other hand, ...

Robert Maimoni watched with tears in his eyes observing the moments of national ecstasy that were generated by Operation Entebbe. On July 4, 1976, a commando unit of the Israel Defense Forces rescued ...