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Israeli elite SF unit – Sayeret Matkal – went on a complex hostages-rescue operation and managed to save 80 of the passengers, with only one soldier lost, the commander, lt. colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, the elder brother of Benjamin Netanyahu.
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A commando team from the Israeli Army's elite Sayeret Matkal special forces unit was to be inserted into Iraq from Jordan, where they would travel to the funeral near Tikrit and kill Saddam with TV-guided " Midras " missiles.
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* 1985 – Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model
* 1969 – Israeli commando force penetrates deep into Egyptian territory to stage a mortar attack on regional Egyptian Army headquarters in the Nile Valley of Upper Egypt.
* 1923 – Shimon Peres, Israeli politician, 9th President of Israel
* 1940 – Ram Loevy, Israeli screenwriter and director
* 1981 – Harel Skaat, Israeli singer-songwriter
* 1952 – Esther Roth-Shahamorov, Israeli track and field athlete
* 1981 – Maya Dunietz, Israeli pianist, singer and composer
* 1913 – Menachem Begin, Israeli politician, 6th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1992 )
* 1924 – Ephraim Kishon, Israeli writer ( d. 2005 )
* 2002 – Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
* 1986 – Gilad Shalit, Israeli soldier
* 1975 – Avner Dorman, Israeli composer
* Abie Nathan ( 1927 – 2008 ), Israeli humanitarian and peace activist
* 1970 – Bahr el-Baqar incident: Israeli bombers strike an Egyptian school.
* 1989 – Ben Sahar, Israeli footballer
* 1987 – The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
* 2005 – Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician ( b. 1924 )
* Amos Bar ( 1931 – 2011 ), Israeli author, teacher, and editor
Many refugees from areas captured by Israeli forces in 1947 – 48 fled to the Bethlehem area, primarily settling in the what became the official refugee camps of ' Azza ( Beit Jibrin ) and ' Aida in the north and Dheisheh in the south.
Category: Arab – Israeli conflict
* 1923 – Uziel Gal, Israeli firearm designer ( d. 2002 )
* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.
* 1935 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya, Israeli chess player
* 1947 – Chava Alberstein, Israeli singer, lyricist, composer, and musical arranger
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