No one believed the operation would succeed. No one even believed the Israeli government would approve it. But it eventually became the most famous hostage rescue operation in history – Operation Jonathan, in which Israeli commandos rescued more than a hundred hostages held at the airport in the Ugandan capital, Entebbe, almost 4,000 kilometers as the crow flies from Israel.
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No one believed the operation would succeed. No one even believed the Israeli government would approve it. But it eventually became the most famous hostage rescue operation in history – Operation Jonathan, in which Israeli commandos rescued more than a hundred hostages held at the airport in the Ugandan capital, Entebbe, almost 4,000 kilometers as the crow flies from Israel.