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Who was the only IDF fatality during Operation Entebbe?

  • Yonatan Netanyahu

  • Benjamin Netanyahu

  • Iddo Netanyahu

  • Benzion Netanyahu

Answer

Yonatan Netanyahu was the only Israeli Defence Forces fatality during Operation Entebbe, a 1976 rescue mission in Uganda that freed over 100 hostages taken from an Air France flight. Netanyahu, a Sayeret Matkal commander, was killed during the raid when he led a team of soldiers to storm the building where the hostages were being held.
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