#Entebbe
2 entries tagged Entebbe.
People (1)
- Yosef Zeira Yosef Zeira was a senior department commander in Israeli signals intelligence Unit 8200 who, according to Ari Ben-Menashe, briefed a select team of officers about the 1976 Entebbe hostage rescue operation and ordered them into communications isolation for the operation's duration.
Places (1)
- Uganda Uganda under Idi Amin (1971-1979) is significant for this vault primarily through the 1976 Entebbe hostage crisis, in which Amin provided support to Palestinian and German hijackers holding Israeli passengers at Entebbe Airport; the Israeli raid to rescue the hostages became one of the most celebrated special operations of the Cold War era.