Yonatan netanyahu cause of death
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Yonaton "Yoni" Netanyahu
Yonatan “Yoni” Netanyahu was a commander of the elite Israeli army commando unit Sayeret Matkal. He was famously killed in action during Operation Entebbe in Uganda.
Netanyahu was born on March 13, 1946, in New York City to parents Benzion and Cela who had moved to the States to work for the New Zionist Organization. Shortly after his birth, the family returned to the newly independent state of Israel, living at first in Talpiot, a southern neighborhood of Jerusalem. Yoni’s brothers Benjamin “Bibi” and Iddo were born while the family lived in Talpiot.
In 1955, the Netanyahu family moved to a permanent home in Katamon, a district of Jerusalem. In order to further Benzion’s historical research, the family went back to the United States in 1957, but soon returned to Jerusalem in 1959. In 1963, when Yoni was in 11th grade, the family resettled in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, where Benzion Netanyahu taught at Dropsie College, a school of higher learning for Jewish studies.
Following his graduation from high school in June 1964, Netanyah
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Jonathan Netanyahu
Yonatan «Yoni» Netanyahu (hebraisk יונתן נתניהו) (født 13. mars1946, død 4. juli1976) var en israelsk offiser.
Han var sammen med sine to brødre, Iddo og senere statsminister Benjamin Netanjahu, medlem av Israels forsvars elitestyrke Sayeret Matkal. Han gjorde seg bemerket under Jom kippur-krigen.[7]
Han ble drept under Operasjon Entebbe på Entebbe internasjonale lufthavn i Uganda, hvor israelske militære styrker reddet gisler etter en flykapring. Han ledet angrepet og var den eneste israelske soldaten som ble drept.[8]
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Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story
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Take an intimate and riveting journey into one of the most intrepid exploits in Israeli history, the story of the leader and only casualty of Operation Entebbe. Born in 1946 in the United States, Jonathan (Yoni) Netanyahu always felt committed to serving in the Israeli Defense Forces. For that reason he discontinued his studies at Harvard and returned to Israel to rejoin the army, where he eventually was appointed commander in chief of the top commando unit in the Israeli military (and where his two younger brothers, Benjamin—Israel’s current prime minister—and Ido, also served). On July 4, 1976, 30-year-old Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu led the operation that rescued 103 Israeli hostages from Palestinian terrorists and Ugandan dictator Idi Amin at Entebbe Airport. Commander Netanyahu, who insisted on personally leading his force, was shot dead in the operation that turned him into a historic figure. In this emotional documentary utilizing Netanyahu’s own writings and news reports of the daring raid on Entebbe, filmmakers Jonat
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