50 Years Since “Operation Yonatan” (Entebbe Raid) and Three Years Since The October 7 Massacre – These Two Events are Connected in Many Ways
Presented by Rami Sherman
19:30 Tuesday 15 September
During the Entebbe hostage rescue, Rami Sherman was “Operations Officer” of the unit that performed the rescue. Why is it important to discuss this event 50 years later? What happened during the hijacking? What was the response, in Israel and in the diaspora, to the operation and what was the impact on the relations between the State of Israel and the world? Lastly, how is the Entebbe hostage rescue connected to the October 7 massacre? Rami will talk about these questions and more.
Rami Sherman’s parents were Holocaust survivors who came to Israel in 1946. Rami grew up on Kibbutz Lehavot Habashan in the north of the country which is located only 500 meters from the Syrian border. In 1972, he enlisted in the army and was accepted into an elite unit, “Sayeret Matkal”. In 1976, an Air France airliner was hijacked and rerouted to Entebbe. At that time, he served as an “operation officer” of the unit under the command of Yoni Netanyahu z” l, and in this position, he was involved in preparing the operation. Rami was on the first Hercules that landed in Entebbe and took part in the fight in the old terminal to rescue the hostages.
This year, 2026, we marked the 50th anniversary commemorating “Operation Yonatan”. Rami flew to Entebbe as an Israeli and landed back in Israel as a Jew, but it has taken him 40 years to realize what that means. Since 1990 he has worked as a physiotherapist for the Israeli Olympic team. In 1993, his family moved to Kibbutz Maagan Michael. He is married and has two daughters and five grandchildren.
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