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The letters of Jonathan Netanyahu : the commander of the Entebbe rescue force / introduction by Herman Wouk ; with a foreword and an afterword by Benjamin and Iddo Netanyahu.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Netanyahu, Yonatan, 1946-1976.
- Standardized Title:
- Mikhteve Yoni. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Netanyahu, Yonatan, 1946-1976--Correspondence.
- Netanyahu, Yonatan.
- Netanyahu, Yonatan, 1946-1976.
- Armed Forces.
- Israel--Armed Forces--Officers--Correspondence.
- Israel.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jerusalem ; New York : Gefen, [2001]
- Summary:
- A selection of whole and excerpted letters from Netanyahu, brother of the current conservative Israeli politician Benjamin, between 1963 when he turned 17, to 1976 when he fell during the raid on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda. They were translated from Hebrew by Shoshana Perla and Miriam Arad. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
- Contents:
- Ode to Yoni xiii
- The United States, 1963-1964 1
- Zahal, 1964-1967 25
- Release and Call-Up; the Six-Day War, 1967 121
- Harvard and the Hebrew University, 1967-1969 145
- Zahal Again; in an Elite Unit, 1969-1973 175
- From the Yom Kippur War to Operation Jonathan, 1973-1976 221
- Afterword
- Yoni's Last Days 279
- Statement by General Shlomo Gazit, Chief of Israeli Military Intelligence 293
- Eulogy for Lt. Col. Jonathan Netanyahu, Delivered by Shimon Peres, Israel's Defense Minister 297.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 9652292672
- OCLC:
- 48161057
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