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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Yonatan Netanyahu

1946 - 1976

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Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu (Hebrew: יוֹנָתָן נְתַנְיָהוּ; 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 2,268,344 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Yonatan Netanyahu is the 444th most popular military personnel (down from 377th in 2019), the 1,284th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,068th in 2019) and the 16th 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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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 444 out of 1,468. Before him are Stonewall Jackson, Petre Dumitrescu, Josef Harpe, John Hanning Speke, Matthäus Hetzenauer, and Osman Nuri Pasha. After him are Karl von Bülow, John Hawkins, Levin August von Bennigsen, Theodoros Kolokotronis, Hasdrubal Gisco, and George Maniakes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 95. Before him are Naoto Kan, Stan Smith, Wim Jansen, Berti Vogts, Ivan Reitman, and Ismaïl Omar Guelleh. After him are Ahmed Zewail, Keith Moon, John Heard, Pete Postlethwaite, Stefania Sandrelli, and Steve Biko. Among people deceased in 1976, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 46. Before him are Knud, Hereditary Prince of Denmark, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, Silvana Armenulić, Paul Lazarsfeld, Eileen Gray, and Kazi Nazrul Islam. After him are Lin Yutang, George Ostrogorsky, João Goulart, Tove Ditlevsen, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and George Whipple.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 1,284 out of 18,182. Before him are Chevy Chase (1943), Walter Bradford Cannon (1871), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Mike Shinoda (1977), Julius Axelrod (1912), and John Payne (1912). After him are James Garner (1928), Henry Gantt (1861), Lewis A. Swift (1820), Annette Bening (1958), Michael Stuart Brown (1941), and Grandma Moses (1860).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United States

Among military personnels born in United States, Yonatan Netanyahu ranks 16. Before him are Omar Bradley (1893), John J. Pershing (1860), Albert Pike (1809), William Tecumseh Sherman (1820), Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821), and Stonewall Jackson (1824). After him are Raymond A. Spruance (1886), Richard Winters (1918), Norman Schwarzkopf Jr. (1934), William Westmoreland (1914), Husband E. Kimmel (1882), and Benedict Arnold (1741).

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