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March 20 (Bloomberg) -- In 2005, Benjamin Netanyahu, whowas then Israel’s finance minister, made an official visit toUganda.
For Netanyahu, visits to Uganda are weighted with sadness.It was at the airport in Entebbe that his older brother, YonatanNetanyahu, was shot dead by a Ugandan soldier. Yonatan was theleader of an Israeli commando team dispatched by Prime MinisterYitzhak Rabin in July 1976 to rescue Jewish hostages held bypro-Palestinian terrorists. The terrorists had diverted an AirFrance flight to Uganda, where the then-dictator, the infamousIdi Amin, gave them refuge.