Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TIME spoke to historian Saul David, author of the leading book about the Entebbe raid, to sort the fact from the fiction. In 1976, ...

A C-130 Hercules in front of the old terminal in Uganda's airport, where Israel carried out Operation Entebbe on the Fourth of July, 1976. An Israeli firm won a contract this week to upgrade systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 4 marked the 43rd anniversary of Israel’s famed Operation Entebbe. Most Israelis know the names of two of the Israeli soldiers involved in the daring mission that rescued 102 hostages at the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Uganda President Yoweri Museveni at Entebbe airport in Uganda yesterday. Netanyahu, now Israeli Prime Minister, visited Entebbe, making him the first ...

The terrorists threatened to kill more than 100 Israeli and Jewish passengers if their demands were not met. This threat led to the planning of the rescue operation. It’s worth noting that the pilot ...

In many ways, it was a different world. A disconnected world where information still traveled slowly. A world of snail-mail, where you still needed to pop a dime into a payphone during a road trip.