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, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you are going to make yet another movie about Israel’s brave and heroic rescue of the hostages during the 1976 hijacking of an ...

Israelis are outraged over a 30-year-old British conspiracy theory on the origins of the legendary Entebbe operation. Experts on the Entebbe rescue, including Benjamin Netanyahu, are weighing in to ...

Yoni Netanyahu was the only Israeli soldier killed in the raid, which freed Jewish hostages held at Entebbe after the hijacking of an Air France flight in 1976.

Until its jaw-dropping flame-out in the final 10 minutes, “7 Days in Entebbe” is a tense and gripping historical thriller, recreating the terrorist hijacking of an Air France airliner in 1976 and the ...

Last month, we airmen and veterans of Squadron 103, one of the oldest units of the Israeli air force, bid farewell to a comrade, Lt. Col. Moshe Naveh. His untimely death shocked us all, and as I drove ...

A dance troupe opens “7 Days in Entebbe,” and that dance troupe steals “7 Days in Entebbe.” It says plenty about this dull re-creation of the daring 1976 hostage rescue mission that a dance troupe ...

Unless it’s complicated by something like human feeling, and a recognition of the human beings on both sides of any bloody ideological conflict, true-life heroism has a tendency to look a little ...

Jose Padilha's 7 Days in Entebbe opens with a galvanizing flurry of activity. But the bustle is not the 1976 airliner hijacking that begins the main story, or the Israeli commando raid that concludes ...

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Movies go bad in all kinds of ways, but in “7 Days in Entebbe” the filmmakers found a brand-new way for their movie to commit suicide. It happens, remarkably, in the movie’s last 10 minutes, in a ...