Editing Yonatan Netanyahu (section)

===Operation Entebbe===
Netanyahu was [[killed in action]] on July 4, 1976, while commanding the rescue mission during [[Operation Entebbe]].<ref name=Will>Will, George. "Entebbe's 'Jonathan' story: Israel, U.S. share sacred day", ''The Orlando Sentinel'' (Orlando, Florida), July 2, 1981</ref> He was the only Israeli soldier killed during the raid (along with three hostages, all of the [[Revolutionary Cells (German group)|Revolutionary Cells]] members, all of the [[Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine]] members, and dozens of Ugandan soldiers). The commonly accepted version of his death is that Netanyahu fired on Ugandan soldiers, and was shot in response by a Ugandan soldier from the airport's control tower. His family refused to accept this verdict, and insisted instead that he was killed by the German commanding the hijackers.<ref>[[Anshel Pfeffer]],''Bibi: The Turbulent Life and Times of Benjamin Netanyahu,''  C. Hurst & Co., 2018 pp.116–123</ref><ref name="Shatz" >Adam Shatz, [https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n16/adam-shatz/the-sea-is-the-same-sea 'The sea is the same sea,'] [[The London Review of Books]] Vol. 40 No. 16 · August 30, 2018, pages 24–28.</ref> Netanyahu was shot outside the building being stormed, and soon died in the arms of [[Efraim Sneh]], commander of the mission's medical unit.<ref name="Freedman, 2016">{{cite news|last1=Freedland|first1=Jonathan|title='We thought this would be the end of us': the raid on Entebbe, 40 years on|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/25/entebbe-raid-40-years-on-israel-palestine-binyamin-netanyahu-jonathan-freedland|access-date=July 3, 2016|newspaper=The Guardian|date=June 25, 2016}}</ref> The operation itself was a success, and was renamed as ''Mivtsa Yonatan'' ("Operation Jonathan" in English) in his honor.<ref name=Will />

Netanyahu was buried in Jerusalem's Military Cemetery at [[Mount Herzl]] on July 6 following a military funeral attended by enormous crowds and top-ranking officials.<ref>[http://www.yoni.org.il/en/jonathan.php?p=3 "Yoni’s Last Days – The Raid at Entebbe – Page 3"], Yoni.org</ref> [[Shimon Peres]], then Defense Minister, said during the eulogy that "a bullet had torn the young heart of one of Israel's finest sons, one of its most courageous warriors, one of its most promising commanders – the magnificent Yonatan Netanyahu."<ref name=Virtual>[http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/yonaton-quot-yoni-quot-netanyahu Yonaton "Yoni" Netanyahu biography], ''Jewish Virtual Library''</ref>

There are memorial trees that have been planted in his honor in front of his graduating high school, Cheltenham High School, and a memorial plaque is located in the lobby.