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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.
October 22, 1934 in Jerusalem, Israel
February 6, 1930 in Berlin, Germany
September 3, 1937 in Mulhouse, Haut-Rhin, France
4 November 1929, Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
20 June 1937, Tel Aviv, Israel
October 16, 1923 in Chemnitz, Germany
1926 in York St, Franklin Town, Kingston, Jamaica
May 14, 1914 in Baku, Russian Empire [now Azerbaijan]
18 October 1926, Zoppot, Free City of Danzig [now Sopot, Pomorskie, Poland]
18 January 1931, Tel Aviv, Israel
15 December 1935
November 2, 1933 in Tel Aviv, Israel
July 9, 1947 in Bulgaria
23 March 1944, Israel
October 30, 1931 in Tel Aviv, Israel
December 28, 1939 in Jerusalem, Palestine [now Israel]
19 November 1937, Kingston, Jamaica
24 May 1952, Wels, Upper Austria, Austria
14 September 1932, Budapest, Hungary
December 10, 1904 in Smorgon, Vilna Governorate, Russian Empire [now Smarhon, Grodno Oblast, Belarus]
December 22, 1923 in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
26 October 1953, Israel
23 November 1945, Moshav Nahalal, British Mandate of Palestine [now Israel]
May 25, 1954 in Tel Aviv, Israel
May 20, 1915 in Kvutzat Dganya, Palestine [now Israel]

