# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yonatan-netanyahu
# Generated: 2026-08-31T19:34:02.468Z

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name: "Yonatan Netanyahu"
slug: "yonatan-netanyahu"
description: "The only Israeli soldier killed at Entebbe. He commanded the raid that freed 102 hostages from a hijacked Air France flight in Uganda, but never made it home."
tagline: "Military officer and national hero of the State of Israel (1946–1976)"
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birthDate: "1946-03-13"
deathDate: "1976-07-04"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in New York in 1946, the eldest son of scholar Benzion Netanyahu, Yonatan shuttled between the U.S. and Israel through his youth. He fought in the Six-Day War, tried a semester at Harvard, then cut it short and returned to the Israeli military for good. He joined Sayeret Matkal in the early 1970s and earned the Medal of Distinguished Service in the Yom Kippur War. On July 4, 1976, he led the counter-terrorist strike on Entebbe Airport after Palestinian and German militants hijacked a civilian flight and diverted it to Uganda with Idi Amin's backing. The mission rescued all but four of the 106 hostages. Netanyahu was killed in the assault — thirty years old, the single Israeli combat loss. The operation was renamed for him.