'Operation Thunderbolt': 50 years to the heroic raid on Entebbe
Welcome to The Reel Schmooze with ToI film reviewer Jordan Hoffman and host Amanda Borschel-Dan, where we bring you all the entertainment news and film reviews a Jew can use. This week, Borschel-Dan starts the…
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A film podcast marks the 50th anniversary of the Entebbe raid by reviewing two movies about the event. The discussion highlights how the 1977 feature film, made with Israeli government cooperation shortly after the raid, and a 2012 documentary offer different perspectives on the rescue. Listeners can expect analysis of how each film handles the historical material and what their production contexts reveal about the evolving public memory of the operation.