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The commonly accepted version of his death is that Netanyahu fired on Ugandan soldiers, and was shot in response by a Ugandan soldier from the airport's control tower. His family refused to accept this verdict, and insisted instead that he was killed by the German commanding the hijackers.
Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu was a commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal. He was famously killed in action during Operation Entebbe in Uganda. Netanyahu was born on March 13, 1946, in New York City to parents Benzion and Cela who had moved to the States to work for the New Zionist Organization.
Jul 10, 2021 · The late Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu, a commander in the Israel Defense Force’s elite Sayeret Matkal unit who was the older brother of former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, suffered from...
Jul 2, 2021 · He died fighting anti-Israel terrorists on July 4, 1976 just as the world’s oldest democracy celebrated its bicentennial. Yoni died in a heroic effort that successfully freed over a hundred...
- Moshe Phillips
Jul 6, 2011 · But for those few, Netanyahu – the sole Israeli commando to die in the July 4 assault on the airport in Entebbe, Uganda – was a man worthy of profound admiration, an extremely intelligent person...
On the last day of the war he was wounded in his arm, while reaching out to help a wounded comrade. He managed to crawl back to the Israeli lines, and upon reaching them, fainted. Yoni was evacuated, first to the rear, and then to Safed Hospital, where he was operated on.
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