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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.
February 6, 1930 in Berlin, Germany
October 30, 1931 in Tel Aviv, Israel
December 10, 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]
18 October 1926, Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland]
23 March 1944, Israel
18 January 1931, Tel Aviv, Israel
July 9, 1947 in Bulgaria
September 3, 1937 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
March 2, 1935 in Tel Aviv, Israel
2 August 1923, Wiszniewo, Poland [now Vishnyeva, Belarus]
March 1, 1922 in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
October 22, 1934 in Jerusalem, Israel

