Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PASSENGERS RESCUED in the Entebbe raid are welcomed home by loved ones at Ben-Gurion Airport in July 1976. (photo credit: REUTERS) ...

Classified Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee documents reveal that Yitzhak Rabin anticipated the Entebbe scenario months before the hijacking. About four months before the crisis in Uganda ...

Fifty years ago, Israeli commandos flew roughly 4,000 km to Uganda to rescue more than 100 hostages held after Palestinian ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - A mother and her daughter embrace when the latter arrived at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport after Israeli paratroopers freed ...

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — It was perhaps the most daring Israeli military exploit ever — a rescue raid in Africa that inspired Hollywood films and became etched in Israeli history. Nearly four decades ...

JERUSALEM — Israel on Friday released a cache of previously classified documents that outline in detail the decisions behind a daring 1976 raid to free more than 100 hostages held captive in Uganda.