4 July 1976 (aged 74–75) Kampala, Second Republic of Uganda
Body discovered
1979 Near the Kampala–Jinja Highway, Uganda
Burial place
Har HaMenuchot, Israel
Citizenship
Israel
United Kingdom
Known for
Being killed by Ugandan president Idi Amin following the Entebbe raid
Spouse
Aharon Bloch
(m. 1925)
Children
3
Dora Bloch (née Feinberg; Hebrew: דורה בלוך; 1901/1902 – c. 1976) was an Israeli hostage on Air France Flight 139 on 26 June 1976. Taking off from Tel Aviv, Israel, and destined for Paris, France, the plane soon landed in Athens, Greece, for a scheduled stopover and was subsequently hijacked by two Palestinians from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and two Germans from the Revolutionary Cells, who rerouted to Benghazi, Libya, and then to Entebbe, Uganda, where they received support from Ugandan president Idi Amin. Bloch, who had become ill during the flight, was taken to a hospital in Kampala and was therefore not among the 102 hostages who were rescued when Israel executed Operation Thunderbolt aka 'Operation Yonatan' on 4 July 1976.
She disappeared shortly after the hostages were rescued; her status as a British citizen and Amin's complicity in the hijacking resulted in the United Kingdom severing diplomatic ties with the Commonwealth country. In 1979, during the Tanzanian invasion of Uganda, Bloch's body was discovered by Tanzanian soldiers at a sugar plantation near Kampala and subsequently returned to Israel, where she was buried in Jerusalem. In February 2007, declassified British government documents confirmed that she had been murdered by Ugandan authorities on Amin's orders in retaliation for Operation Thunderbolt, during which Israeli commandos killed all of the hijackers and over 100 Ugandan soldiers.
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