MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yonatan Netanyahu

1946 - 1976

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Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu (March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an Israeli military officer who commanded Sayeret Matkal during the Entebbe raid. The raid was launched in response to the 1976 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yonatan Netanyahu has received more than 2,600,492 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Yonatan Netanyahu is the 423rd most popular military personnel (up from 444th in 2019), the 1,177th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,284th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Military Personnel.

Yonatan Netanyahu is most famous for being the brother of Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel.

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  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 423 out of 2,058. Before him are John of Austria the Younger, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Richard Winters, Erasmo of Narni, Shoichi Yokoi, and Gaius Claudius Glaber. After him are Walter Nowotny, Herbert Gille, Datis, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, Galdan Boshugtu Khan, and Christian Wirth.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 93. Before him are Ed O'Neill, John Paul Jones, John Heard, Janet Yellen, Laura Bush, and Peter Singer. After him are Stefania Sandrelli, Semion Mogilevich, Steve Biko, Paul L. Modrich, Ajda Pekkan, and Jean Todt. Among people deceased in 1976, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 44. Before him are Andrei Grechko, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, René Cassin, Josef Albers, Paul Lazarsfeld, and David Elazar. After him are João Goulart, Kazi Nazrul Islam, George Whipple, George Ostrogorsky, Eileen Gray, and Phil Ochs.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 1,177 out of 20,380. Before him are Noah Gordon (1926), Liliʻuokalani (1838), Clyde Drexler (1962), Alonzo Church (1903), William Gibson (1948), and Gene Sharp (1928). After him are Anjelica Huston (1951), George Armitage Miller (1920), Lisa Kudrow (1963), Mary Higgins Clark (1927), Leo Fender (1909), and Joe Jackson (1928).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 14. Before him are Albert Pike (1809), Matthew C. Perry (1794), Omar Bradley (1893), John J. Pershing (1860), Benedict Arnold (1741), and Richard Winters (1918). After him are Charles Sweeney (1919), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), William Westmoreland (1914), Stonewall Jackson (1824), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), and Creighton Abrams (1914).

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