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A dance piece by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin opens 7 Days in Entebbe and resurfaces in rehearsal or performance interludes throughout. Batsheva Dance Company members are arranged on chairs in a ...

If you are going to make yet another movie about Israel’s brave and heroic rescue of the hostages during the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jet en route from Tel Aviv to Paris, it would be wise to ...

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ENTEBBE, Uganda (eTN) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning a landmark visit to Uganda and Kenya this summer to mark 40 years since the July 4, 1976, Entebbe raid. ENTEBBE, Uganda ...

The gripping political thriller “7 Days in Entebbe” — based on true events and directed by Brazilian filmmaker José Padilha — opens surprisingly with a modern dance performance. It’s a captivating ...

Michel Bacos, the valiant French pilot who was forced by terrorists to fly his jetliner to Entebbe, Uganda, in 1976, but refused to abandon Jewish passengers before an audacious rescue by Israeli ...

— The official film of the Munich Olympics, directed by a slew of international directors, including Milos Forman, Kon Ichikawa and Arthur Penn. Surprisingly, only one segment makes significant ...

Going in to the historical drama "7 Days in Entebbe," I'll admit to having only the vaguest notion of the events that inspired the film. I knew that a passenger plane, after taking off from Israel at ...

The story of the daring 1976 Israeli military raid to rescue 106 hostages in Entebbe, Uganda, following the hijacking of a French passenger jet has already been the subject of three previous features ...

IT'S too early to tell what exactly happened on board the Mavi Marmara, where Israeli commandos killed at least nine protestors this morning. The Israelis say they were attacked by passengers armed ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio-I had just finished my first year of college in June of 1976 when four hijackers, two Palestinian, and two German grabbed an airliner out of Tel Aviv headed for Paris and took it to ...