Israel's Netanyahu Starts Rare Africa Trip

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Uganda to begin a rare tour of sub-Saharan Africa and to mark the 1976 hostage rescue in which his brother was killed. Netanyahu landed at Entebbe International Airport, where Israeli commandos rescued more than 100 passengers and crew of a hijacked Air France plane on July 4, 1976.The only fatality Israeli forces suffered in the raid was Jonathan Netanyahu, the prime minister's older brother. After a ceremony at the airport's old...

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