Former prime minister Naftali Bennett paid tribute to Lt. Col. Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu on the 50th anniversary of his death in the 1976 Entebbe raid, calling him one of his childhood heroes.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett paid tribute Sunday to Lt. Col. Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu, the commander of the Sayeret Matkal unit who was killed during the 1976 Operation Thunderbolt (Entebbe raid), on the 50th anniversary of his death.
"Yoni was one of the heroes of my youth," Bennett wrote. "The book 'Yoni's Letters' was with me for years. I named my eldest son Yoni. Thank you, hero of Israel."
The tribute comes on the day marking five decades since the raid, in which Israeli commandos rescued over 100 hostages from a hijacked Air France plane at Entebbe, Uganda.
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