Last known photo of Netanyahu, taken shortly before his death in Operation Entebbe[1]
Native name
יוֹנָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ
Nickname(s)
Yoni (יוּנִי)
Born
March 13, 1946 New York City, United States
Died
July 4, 1976(1976-07-04) (aged 30) Entebbe, Second Republic of Uganda
Service/branch
Ground Forces
Years of service
1964–1976
Rank
Sgan Aluf
Unit
Paratroopers Brigade
Commands held
Sayeret Matkal
Battles/wars
Arab–Israeli conflict
Six-Day War
War of Attrition
Yom Kippur War
Operation Entebbe †
Awards
Medal of Distinguished Service
Alma mater
Harvard University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Spouse(s)
Tirza Goodman
(m. 1967; div. 1972)
Relations
Nathan Mileikowsky (grandfather)
Benzion Netanyahu (father)
Elisha Netanyahu (uncle)
Benjamin Netanyahu (brother)
Iddo Netanyahu (brother)
Nathan Netanyahu (cousin)
Yair Netanyahu (nephew)
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 and then to Uganda, where they received support from Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Though Israel's counter-terrorist operation was a success, with 102 of the 106 hostages being rescued, Netanyahu was killed in action – the only Israeli soldier killed during the crisis.
The eldest son of the Israeli professor Benzion Netanyahu, Yonatan was born in New York City and spent much of his youth in the United States, where he attended high school. After serving in the Israeli military during the Six-Day War, he briefly attended Harvard University before transferring to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1968; soon thereafter, he left his studies and returned to military service in Israel. He joined Sayeret Matkal in the early 1970s and was awarded the Medal of Distinguished Service for his conduct in the Yom Kippur War. After his death, Operation Entebbe was renamed "Operation Yonatan" in his honor.[2][3]
^Follow Me image gallery Archived 2013-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
^"'We thought this would be the end of us': the raid on Entebbe, 40 years on". TheGuardian.com. 25 June 2016. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
^"Meet the youngest hostages freed by Israeli commandos 40 years ago at Entebbe". WashingtonPost.com. Retrieved 29 April 2020.
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