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Sayeret Matkal [2] (Hebrew: סיירת ... Benjamin Netanyahu's younger brother. [17] Yonatan Netanyahu – unit commander, killed in Operation Entebbe.
Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sayeret Matkal (Maariv 2007) [10] After graduating from high school in 1967, Netanyahu returned to Israel to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces . He trained as a combat soldier and served for five years in a special forces unit of the IDF, Sayeret Matkal .
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu [a] (March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal during the Entebbe raid.The raid was launched in response to the 1976 hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight from Israel to France by Palestinian and German militants, who took control of the aircraft during a stopover in Greece and diverted it to Libya ...
The International Criminal Court last month issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav ... who also served in the Sayeret Matkal commando unit ...
The Israeli military suffered five wounded and one killed; Yonatan Netanyahu was Israel's sole fatality of Operation Entebbe, and had led Sayeret Matkal during the rescue effort – he was the older brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, who would later become Israel's prime minister. [21]
Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story is a 2012 American documentary film written by Jonathan Gruber, who co-directed the film with Ari Daniel Pinchot.The film documents the life and death of IDF officer Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu, a member of Sayeret Matkal and the elder brother of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. [1]
The film makes the powerful case that Netanyahu’s alliance with the far-right fringe of Israeli politics, which has culminated in his grotesque compulsion to extend the war in Gaza with no end ...
Benjamin Netanyahu during an interview with TIME in the Prime Minister’s office in Jerusalem on Aug 4. Credit - Paolo Pellegrin—Magnum Photos for TIME