75 years ago today, July 11, 1947, more than 4,500 Jewish refugees from Europe, set sail on the Exodus, from the Port of Sete near Marseilles, with the hopes of reaching the Jewish homeland. These heroes who survived the horrors of the Holocaust would live to see the revival and establishment […]
#OnThisDay Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt was a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by the IDF at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on July 4, 1976.Michel Bacos, the captain of Air France flight 139, was awarded a medal by the Israeli government for refusing to leave his Jewish passengers behind. […]
