Israeli Official to Visit Entebbe Field Where Brother Died
Deputy Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will visit Uganda to see where his brother was killed in a 1976 Israeli raid to rescue hijack victims held at Entebbe Airport.
An official Israeli source, who declined to be identified, said Netanyahu would be making a private visit to Uganda, which has no official ties with Israel, after his two-day official trip to Kenya beginning Friday.
Netanyahu’s brother, Yonatan, was killed at Entebbe Airport in an Israeli commando raid that rescued 105 hostages, most of them Jewish, from Palestinian and West German hijackers of an Air France plane on its way from Tel Aviv to Paris.
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