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4,000 Kilometers to Rescue: Inside Operation Entebbe

Podcast: Covert Operations and National Security · Circle Of Insight Productions

Opublikowano: 2026-10-01

In 1976, more than 100 hostages sat thousands of miles from Israel at Uganda's Entebbe Airport, and Israeli planners had almost nothing working in their favor — crushing distance, thin intelligence, no element of surprise to count on, and the constant threat that hostages would be killed before any rescue force arrived. This episode breaks down how Israeli special operations forces built a raid capable of closing that gap and executing a complex assault on foreign soil in under two hours. We examine the planning, deception, and precision execution that turned an almost impossible scenario into a successful extraction. Entebbe remains one of th...