La vida de Yonatan Netanyahu, el hermano mayor del primer ministro israelí, Benjamín Netanyahu, contada aquí (en inglés). Desde siempre Yonatan sintió la necesidad de participar de la defensa de su país, que se veía amenazado por varios frentes. Yoni estuvo en Operation Entebbe, Six-Day War, Operation Spring of Youth, entre otras, como comando. En vocabulario: meager, skirmish, thwart
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'…
Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu (1946 – 1976) was an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer who commanded the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal during Operation Entebbe, an operation to rescue hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. The mission was successful, with 102 of the 106 hostages rescued, but Netanyahu was killed in action—the only IDF fatality during the operation.
Yonatan
Netanyahu was born in New
York City, the eldest son of Zila
and Benzion Netanyahu. 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 Palestine in 1920.
While in high school, he began contemplating his purpose in life, when he wrote in a 1963 letter,
