‘Not a day I don’t think about him,’ Netanyahu tells JNS of brother Yoni, killed 50 years ago in Entebbe
Shortly after his brother Jonathan “Yoni” Netanyahu was killed during the Israeli counter-terror operation in Entebbe, Uganda, to liberate hostages from Palestinian and German terrorists, Benjamin Netanyahu met with a British television producer, the Israeli prime minister wrote in an introduction to a book of his brother’s letters published in 2001.He and the producer talked about a “dramatization of my brother’s life,” Netanyahu wrote in his “Ode to Yoni,” in the foreword to “The Letters of Jonathan Netanyahu: The Commander of the Entebbe Rescue Force.”“After reviewing the events of Yoni’s life and death, the producer said to me, ‘Leave it alone. A great biography of a great life needs the perspective of decades,’” Netanyahu wrote. “Two decades have passed since that day, and each year I am reminded of the wisdom of that advice.”“For Yoni’s image grows with the passage of time, as does the appreciation of his unique character,”…
Fifty years after Operation Entebbe, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reflected on the legacy of his brother, Jonathan "Yoni" Netanyahu, who was killed during the 1976 counter-terror operation in Uganda. Netanyahu told JNS, "There's not a day I don't think about him," and "There's not a day that I don't try to consult with him and with my father." He noted that his brother's death "changed my life and directed it to its present course."
- At a July 12 commemoration, President Isaac Herzog stated that "'Operation Yonatan' does not belong to any one person or group. It transcends every disagreement."
- Netanyahu described Entebbe as "synonymous with a most daring operation, which made the impossible possible," emphasizing its role in uplifting Israel's honor and teaching the world to confront international terrorism.
- He highlighted the terrorists' "selection" of Jewish hostages, drawing a parallel to the Holocaust, and their mistaken belief that distance provided immunity from an Israeli rescue.
- Netanyahu praised Yoni's daring, composure, and judgment, qualities he said were shared by all the fighters involved in the operation.
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