Yoni's Last Battle: The Rescue at Entebbe, 1976

On July 4 1976 more than a hundred hostages held at gunpoint in Entebbe Uganda were freed in a spectacular rescue operation and flown to safety in Israel over 2000 miles away. Their captors were Arab and German terrorists aided by the Ugandan army; their liberators were members of Israels elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal simply known as "the Unit." Lt.-Col. Yoni (Jonathan) Netanyahu the Units commander earned world-wide fame in the wake of the operations stunning success. He was the only Israeli soldier killed in the Entebbe raid. As a brother of the rescue forces commander and himself a member of the Unit Iddo Netanyahu had ready access to the participants in the raid. He was able to obtain detailed accounts from the men of the Unit who for the first time described the planning and preparations for the mission and its near-perfect execution. What emerged from their accounts is a powerful and stirring story of how the daring undertaking was accomplished after only 48 hours of frantic preparations. Yonis Last Battle portrays the men who carried out an incredibly hazardous operation in far-away Africa. Above all it depicts the heroic - and tragic - figure of their commander Yoni.