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The raid was launched in response to the hijacking of an international civilian passenger flight from Israel to France by Palestinian and German militants, who took control of the aircraft during a stopover in Greece and diverted it to Libya and then to Uganda , where they received support from Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. Though Israel's counter-terrorist operation was a success, with of the hostages being rescued, Netanyahu was killed in action — the only Israeli soldier killed during the crisis.

The eldest son of the Israeli professor Benzion Netanyahu , Yonatan was born in New York City and spent much of his youth in the United States, where he attended high school. After serving in the Israeli military during the Six-Day War , he briefly attended Harvard University before transferring to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in ; soon thereafter, he left his studies and returned to military service in Israel.

After his death, Operation Entebbe was renamed "Operation Yonatan" in his honor.

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His mother had been born in Petah Tikva , in what is now Israel, which was then in the Ottoman Empire 's Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem , while his father was born in Warsaw and immigrated to Mandate Palestine in He was named after his paternal grandfather, rabbi Nathan Mileikowsky , and Colonel John Henry Patterson , who formerly commanded the Jewish Legion and attended his circumcision.

Benjamin was elected Prime Minister of Israel in , in and reelected in , , and Iddo , the youngest of the three, is a radiologist and writer. All three brothers served in Sayeret Matkal. Netanyahu's family returned to the newly independent state of Israel in when he was two and settled in Jerusalem. In the family again moved to the United States before returning to Israel in Netanyahu attended high school at Gymnasia Rehavia in Jerusalem.

In , when he was in 11th grade, the family returned to the United States, where he attended Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania. While in high school, he began contemplating his purpose in life, when he wrote in a letter, "The trouble with the youth here is that their lives are meager in content. I ought to be ready at every moment of my life to confront myself and say—'This is what I've done'.