Micha Bar Am The return from Entebbe. Ben Gurion Airport, Israel. 1976.
“After terrorists hijacked a Paris/Tel-Aviv flight and forced it to land in Entebbe, Uganda, about 2,400 miles from its destination, Isr
(...) aeli commandos freed 268 hostages in a brilliantly planned and executed operation. The original code name for the mission was ‘Operation Thunderbolt’, but after the task force commander, Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, was killed (Israel Defense Forces’ only casualty during the raid), it became known as ‘Operation Yonatan’. In this image, passengers are welcomed by their relatives at the Ben Gurion Airport.”
– Micha Bar-Am © Micha Bar Am | Magnum Photos
