Memorial services were held on Sunday for Yoni Netanyahu, brother of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who was killed during Israel's raid on the airport in Entebbe, Uganda to rescue Jewish passengers from a hijacked Air France flight in 1976. The observance was delayed from Friday June 30, corresponding to the Hebrew date of the 6th of Tammuz.
In the presence of the prime minister and his family, retired general Amiram Levin, a former commander of the Sayeret Matkal commando unit, described Yoni Netanyahu's tenure in the post by calling him, "As usual, always with courage, always cool headed, always at the head of his troops. When he took charge of the unit, Yoni was already mature, experienced and self confident as a commander and a natural leader. In his personal life he was still young, stormy, sensitive and poetic. That's how we felt, and how we loved him."