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The rescued Air France passengers and crew coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben-Gurion International Airport, July 1976. Credit: Israel Government Press Office.

The French pilot who stayed with his Jewish passengers at Entebbe

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We live in a time when it seems as if the guard rails that briefly deterred the spread of anti-Semitism have collapsed. That seems particularly true in Europe, where the memory of the Holocaust has...
Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon (back to camera) welcoming the rescued Air France passengers and crew including pilot Michel Bacos (left) coming off an Israel Air Force Hercules plane at Ben Gurion Airport, July, 1976. Credit: Moshe Milner/ Israel Government Press Office.

French pilot who remained with Israeli and Jewish hostages at Entebbe dies at 95

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Michel Bacos, the Air France pilot who, along with his crew, stayed with Israeli and Jewish hostages during the July 1976 hijacking that diverted the plane to Uganda’s Entebbe Airport, died in the French...