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Every year in Israel's history is a station. Turn the dial and hear what was on the air — original archival photos, voices from the radio, the story, and the song of that year.

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1976

Operation Yonatan

IDF fighters flew four thousand kilometers to Uganda and rescued the hostages at Entebbe Airport.

  1. On the first Land Day, a protest against a plan to expropriate land in the Galilee, six Arab citizens are killed in clashes with the security forces.
  2. An Air France flight from Tel Aviv to Paris is hijacked and forced to land at Entebbe in Uganda.
  3. In Operation Thunderbolt (Kadur HaRa'am), the IDF rescues the hostages; the ground force commander, Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, is killed.
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