On June 27, 1976, a jet carrying an international mix of passengers is hijacked by pro-Palestinian revolutionaries. The plane lands in Entebbe, where President Idi Amin feigns concern while showing obvious sympathy to the hijackers. May of the passengers are released but 103 Israelis are kept in custody to use as a bargaining chip for the release of imprisoned Palestinian so-called freedom fighters held in Israeli prisons. With virtually no other option, the Israeli government gives the go-ahead forOperation Thunderbolt, a commando raid on Entebbe airport. The world waited as the hours and minutes to the deadline set by the terrorists ticked away...