What If Pacifying Iran By Moving Jews Out Of Israel?

 Nadene Goldfoot                                           

 Fleeing tourists leaving Israel in the midst of  Iran bombing Tel Aviv
   Airspace is closed, so choosing a ship            

Would Iran be satisfied if all Jews were moved out of Israel and the Middle East?  Would Iran leave "The Big Satan," the USA, alone and make peace?  

What adds up to "PEACE" anyway;  letting Iran have nuclear inter-continental missiles with warheads of nuclear bombs?  In other words, not destroying the last nuclear sites of Iran such as Fordow in their zeal to destroy Israel and possibly all of the USA?  

The old adage, "been there, done that," comes into play.  Many years ago there was a Jewish newspaper reporter, the non-religious Theodore Herzl, who was concerned about his people of eastern Europe  being wiped out by the pogroms and such;  the anti-Semitism spreading across Europe.  This was before Israel was even considered.                                   

                                 Find Kenya above; it's near that                   

He thought of just that;  buying land somewhere for Jews to call "HOME."   Doing research seriously, he came up with "Africa."  

• The Uganda Scheme: In 1903, the British government
•  proposed a territory in East Africa (modern-day Kenya) for Jewish settlement as a temporary refuge from persecution in Europe.
• Herzl's Initial Interest: Herzl, facing Ottoman resistance to a
•  Jewish homeland in Palestine, saw the Uganda proposal as
•  a potentially viable option for Jewish immigrants in immediate danger. 
• He presented the plan to the Sixth Zionist Congress in 1903 for evaluation.
• Opposition and Rejection: The proposal met with strong
•  opposition within the Zionist movement and from other
•  groups, ultimately leading to its rejection at the Seventh
•  Zionist Congress in 1905, after Herzl's death.
• Emphasis on Palestine: Despite the debate, the Zionist
•  movement reaffirmed its commitment to a Jewish
•  homeland in Palestine as the ultimate goal. 

Zionists debated with these reasons why Palestine was  their

land to return to and not Africa or other places:

   Chaim Weizmann: chemist, Zionist leader, (1st president

of the state of Israel, born at Motel, near Pinsk, was director of 

biological chemistry at Manchester,  connected with Herzl's 

movement), opposed Uganda in 1903.  

• Weizmann developed a new process for producing acetone by fermenting carbohydrates, mainly starch from corn and potatoes.
• This "Weizmann process" was vital because acetone was a key ingredient in cordite, a smokeless gunpowder essential for the Allied war effort.
• Britain faced a severe shortage of acetone, as Germany was the main supplier of calcium acetate for its production.
• Weizmann's process enabled the mass production of acetone in Britain, Canada, and the United States, which contributed to the Allied victory.  Because of his help, the Jews were led to believe that the
•  Brits would carry out the Balfour Doctrine and Palestine
• would become the Jewish Homeland once again.  

• Need for Refuge from Persecution: The rise of antisemitism in Europe, particularly the pogroms in Russia, prompted many Jews to seek a place of refuge and security. Zionists argued that a Jewish state in Palestine would provide a safe haven for Jews facing persecution.
• Establishment of a Jewish Demographic Majority: Zionists aimed to create a Jewish state with a Jewish majority in Palestine, which they considered essential for their self-determination and security.

• Historical and Religious Connection: Zionism is deeply rooted in the ancient Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, also known as Zion. For millennia, Jews have yearned to return to this land, which they see as their ancestral home, as expressed in religious practices and traditions. The Land of Israel is central to Jewish history and Judaism.

• National Self-Determination: Early Zionists believed that Jews constitute a nation with a right to self-determination, similar to other nations at the time. They sought a territory where they could express their own national sovereignty and escape persecution as a minority.

• Legal Basis: Some Zionists pointed to international
•  agreements like the Balfour Declaration (1917), which
•  expressed British support for a Jewish national home in
•  Palestine, and the UN Partition Plan (1947), which proposed
•  dividing Palestine into a Jewish and Arab state, as legal justifications for a Jewish state. 

It is important to note that these Zionist motivations were not universally accepted, and there were differing viewpoints among Jews themselves, with some smaller religious groups opposing the Zionist movement and advocating for a divinely ordained return. Additionally, today, the Zionist movement has been criticized for its impact on the Palestinian population, leading to conflict and displacement. 

 Being that the King of Iraq and Syria was all for the Jewish 

return (until he saw how riled up they had become due to 

Husseini, the Sherif of Jerusalem, who was appointed by a 

naive Jewish man of parliament by the Brits, towards their

return.  He started riots against Jews living in Palestine.  

                    Chaim Weizmann and King Faisal I in Paris

"The King of both Iraq and Syria was Faisal I. He was the first King of Iraq (1921-1933) and also briefly held the title of King of Syria in 1920. He was a key figure in the Arab Revolt and played a significant role in the formation of the modern Middle East. "  He was an educated man, but his people were not.  He had hoped they would learn from the closeness to the Jews.

Our origins were in ancient Israel.  We've been forced to live in others' countries and treated badly, more  like 2nd class citizens at the best, and then there's the worst.  Even in the USA, anti-Semitism prevailed in New York and elsewhere in the 1920's.  

So the Jewish people seem to be primed for the "Great Return Back,' that actually was prophesized.  It's happened, along with "Anti-Semitism elsewhere almost equaling what was going on in Germany in the 30's before the Holocaust.  

Can't you imagine what would happen if Trump moved us all out of Israel and said, 'Here, Iran.  The cause of your angst is no longer there.  We can sign a peace treaty, and they would laugh in your face.  They would claim to be the winner and become the ruler of the whole world.  And as for the Jews, there would be no place where 7 million Jews could live, as all the anti-Semitism wouldn't allow it.  

So don't hold your breath;  Jews are not leaving Israel.  We've waited for almost 2,000 years for this time to return to our ancient homeland, a homeland that greeted the Jewish people gladly, for it knew they could restore the swamps and deserts to fruitful areas once again.  

So we're back to the drawing board pondering what to do to change Iran, a country once happily a friend of Israel until the Ayatollahs appearance.                             

Don't tell us to Fly us to the moon, either. I'd add that if Iran can't stand our survival, let them leave and fly to the moon, themselves.  

 Yes, there is a song called "Fly Me to the Moon". It was originally written by Bart Howard in 1954 and is famously associated with Frank Sinatra's 1964 recording. The song is also known by its original title, "In Other Words". Sinatra's version became closely tied to the Apollo missions to the moon, with Buzz Aldrin playing it upon landing on the moon. 

When To Pull The Plug On Immigration Into Your Country

 Nadene Goldfoot                                    

We human have been migrating for various reason ever since we became human!  I suppose the grass always looked better to us on the other side of that hill or mountain or stream or river or ocean. We were made to migrate.  

Now that we are living in the future, a time we just dreamt about and find it is our generation that live in what we wrote about-that future, we find that the situation has changed.  Migrations of people are more like invasions of our privacy, our heaven.  

Back in the Bible Days, the Assyrians practiced attacking and then relocating those attacked to other places.  They did this to the 10 tribes of Jacob living in the northern section of Israel.  That, at least, was better than taking lives.  They found then that people were useful, slaves, and put them to work.  Abraham joined a group with his family of moving from the Tigris River in Mesopotamia to Egypt.  Jacob and his family of 70 moved from Canaan during a drought and also went to Egypt where the Nile River fed all. We became a moving people all over the planet.  This is shown in our DNA tests by population geneticists.  We are born in one place and die in another; becoming farmers after being hunters and gatherers, then  city folk.  

Today, there are other reasons for migrations to occur.  Usually its in the plans of the nations' leadership.  People of one skill are desired in a nation without that skill and people are asked to move there.  Or, it's in the plans to take over a nation by overloading it with people from a certain country-taking the place of a war and winning it. 

                              1836 and the Alamo in Texas 

Mexico at one time mentioned something like that-getting back Texas by overloading it with their Mexican population.  That has turned out to be true except not for that reason.  Their population has fled due to their mismanagement of people;  drug overlords taking over parts of Mexico; a high criminal element frightening the people out of Mexico.                           

              Molenbeek, an immigrant community

Belgium took in Muslims and they took over a city, Molenbeek.  It isn't like a China town, inviting to tourists.  It's not safe.    The Belgium police are afraid to enter.  Belgium has produced more jihadi fighters, per capita, than any other western European nation and is estimated to have dispatched around 520 recruits to the Islamic State cause in Syria. Even the idea of visiting the land that is home to the EU parliament is enough to inspire trepidation in some foreigners.  As Charles Michel, the Belgian prime minister, put it, "Almost every time there is a terrorist attack, there is a link with Molenbeek."Taki in the Spectator has described the district as a "no-go area" which police are too frightened to enter. 

The USA is running out of resources like water.  We pay money to have water and now private companies are trying to take that over and they will ask for higher prices.  Nothing is free, really, in the USA like education was in Syria.  I say this because I don't know what the situation in Syria is now.  California and Portland, Oregon are highly taxed so that all can have great benefits, but the taxes have come to the point where people are gasping;  they reach a point of being too high, even for them.  Gresham, Oregon just said no to more taxes for the police.  They'll have to get along on the high ones they already have.  

Conditions are bad at the border between Mexico and the USA, even with Biden as President.  We're about to face real problems and not receive our Social Security Benefits next month because of it.  We owe too much money and haven't made the dent in this debt. 

Israel, a country of migrants,  has also been faced with a migration problem.  Israel was created for Jews who have been homeless for over 2,000 years, having to migrate here and there and exist through the good will of that country that usually turned against them for being who they were.  They were 2nd class citizens at best in the Middle East lands.  In Europe they were invaded and attacked or killed in pogroms.  So Israel is the new reservoir, safety place for Jews, the only Jewish country in the world.  When others come in a migration, what do they do?  The Jewish motto is to Not do to others that which they don't want to happen to them.  In other words, the Golden Rule.  That's what Judaism is all about.  Can migration survive here ?  

As for the Jewish plight, Jews have been forced to migrate from country to country throughout too many ages.  Finally, Theodor Herzl, Jewish,  wrote a novel about their condition and what to do about it called Altneuland, which presents his Zionist ideas as embodied in a utopian Jewish state in Palestine. He was not orthodox;  reformed as much as possible who at one time recommended assimilation, and living in Uganda.   He was a Jew who was a Viennese reporter and knew what was happening to other Jews, and thinking of what to do about it.  Jews were being referred to as "The Wandering Jew."  

    2010 :Al Jezeera picture: Surprise invasion from Africa to Israel.  

 Since the detention facility was set up, Israeli immigration police have housed more than 2,500 African asylum seekers under the country’s so-called “Infiltrators Law”, which allows Israel to detain, without charge or trial, migrants who have entered the country without legal documentation.

The mainly Eritrean and Sudanese migrants left the Holot camp facility on June 27 because Israel had not processed their claims for asylum as yet.  Since the camp was set up, Israeli immigration police had placed more than 2,500 asylum seekers under what authorities call the "Infiltrators Law". That's how they entered Israel, The Africans and al Jazeera refer to the detention camp as a prison.  This is the best a small country, taken by surprise, can do for these new-country seekers who sneak in without right or reason or documentation..  Well, they may have had reason, but not having to do with Israel except maybe seeing it as an easy mark.  

The Holot Detention Center in Israel holding the Africans After their "grand surprise entrance into the country, really an invasion::  Africans called on UN and Red Cross to intervene.  Israel had arrested about 1,000 of them. 

Africans migrated and entered Israel in 2010 that became quite problematic. When they entered, the migrants ran amok, grabbing and stealing anything they saw.   They themselves chose Israel but had no reason, no connection to Israel or Jews.  

Besides that, Israel is one of the smallest teeniest countries in the world.  The South Sudanese, whose country was established in 2011 after they fled civil war in Sudan five or six years ago, will be the first to be repatriated, under an agreement between South Sudan and Israel. They number only some 1,500.

“The next stage is the removal from Israel of all the infiltrators from Eritrea and Sudan, whose number comes close to 50,000 people,” said Interior Minister Eli Yishai. Sudan happens to be the 8th most populated Muslim majority country in the world, already having 70% Muslim population. 50% of Eritreans  are Muslims and 50% Christians at this time. They were neighbors of Ethiopia, and Israel has already taken in many Ethiopians that were Jewish;  people having been attacked by Eritreans. Did they need the Ethiopians' enemies to enter Israel?  It's established to be a Jewish haven, one of a kind.  48 other Muslim majority countries welcoming Muslims were awaiting them.   “At the moment, we are permitted only to deport from Israel the citizens of South Sudan and the Ivory Coast,” the minister was quoted as saying.  “I hear those who say these infiltrators cannot be sent back, but this is an important mission ...‮‮‮‮‮‮‮‮ ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‎saying “No” is tantamount to shelving the declaration of independence, the end of the Zionist dream,” said Yishai, who heads a religious party.     As it was, charity food lines were set up in Tel Aviv in 2012 to feed them.

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Israel has begun work on a long security fence along its border with Jordan, the only one of its internationally recognized frontiers currently without a physical barrier.  Newspaper reports said Netanyah had asked officials to examine whether a fence should now also be built along the boarder ith southern Jordan, in the event that migrants try to cross the narrow Gulf of Aqaba and enter Israel from the Arab kingdom.   Israel, a country of 7.8 million at that time, had almost completed a high fence along the border to deter more would-be migrants      who are brought to the frontier by Bedouin people-smugglers. Newspaper reports said Netanyahu had asked officials to examine whether a fence should now also be built along the border with southern Jordan, in the event that migrants try to cross the narrow Gulf of Aqaba and enter Israel from the Arab kingdom.  The African were job-seekers in hotels, etc.                                 

A Sudanese migrant rides his bicycle on October 25, 2020, in the southern part of Tel Aviv where thousands of them are living. (Photo by MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)  As you can see, the plight ended up with many remaining in Israel.  

The Eritrean–Ethiopian War from 1998 to 2000 involved a major border conflict, eventually resolved in 2018. In 2020, Eritrean troops intervened in Tigray War on the side of Ethiopian central government. In April 2021, Eritrea confirmed its troops were fighting in Ethiopia.   Eritrea borders  Ethiopia in the south, Sudan in the west, and Djibouti in the southeast.  

Tell this to the world, though.  Reporters have no idea.  All they see is Israel returning Africans and not allowing them to stay because they were Africans. Their appearance was more of an invasion than a group appealing for help.   "How terrible", they write, "that Israel returns them".  

African immigration to Israel is the international movement to Israel from Africa of people that are not natives or do not possess Israeli citizenship in order to settle or reside there. This phenomenon began in the second half of the 2000s, when a large number of people from Africa entered Israel, mainly through the then-lightly fenced border between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. According to the data of the Israeli Interior Ministry, 26,635 people arrived illegally in this way by July 2010, and over 55,000 by January 2012. In an attempt to curb the influx, Israel constructed the Egypt–Israel barrier. Since its completion in December 2013, the barrier has almost completely stopped the immigration of Africans into Israel across the Sinai border. 

As of January 2018, according to the Population and Immigration Authority (PIBA) there were 37,288 African migrants in Israel, not including children born to migrants in Israel. Most African migrants are regarded to be legitimate asylum seekers by human rights organizations, but the Israeli government says most of them are job seeking work-migrants. There was even a group of Blacks from the USA. 

This was a different situation from the Ethiopian Jews and those few from Kenya who found they carried the Cohen gene and were Jewish.

I know of one person who is a lawyer, who traveled every  year to do his stint

 (milueem  in the IDF, and has finally moved his family and himself to Israel.   

The Palestinians want to enter Israel with their huge population that would flood the Jewish population.  Right now it's been staying at 80% Jewish and 20% Arab population.  There are 48 other Muslim majority countries that they could enter, but they are being conjoled to enter Israel.  This is the plan of a Palestinian State next door to Israel.  They want to bring in the total population into Israel; thus taking Israel.  

Israel was established by Jews  for Jews in 1947. By that time, in the 1930s Israel was still Palestine and being considered to become the Jewish Homeland.  There was a 1,467, 000 Arab population there while Jews only numbered 475,000 native Palestinians.  By 1948, there were 750,000 Jews;  the number that entered Canaan with Joshua was 601,730.  This lopsided number did present a problem, and at the time, Jews were fearful for their very lives in the world as they were living the worst of lives;  2nd class citizens under heavy duress, anti-Semitism everywhere because they wouldn't comply to the dominant religion.  Judaism itself told them where they were meant to live--and that was in Palestine (Judea and Samaria), their ancient land.                      

The Arabs, (for all were called Palestinians who lived there), were under no stress for their lives.  They just lived there, Bedouins that moved about.  Joan Peters (book-From Time Immemorial)  has made a study of their origin and found that many had recently moved there when Jews started returning and building.  They were indeed job seekers.  For example, Jews came in large groups by 1881 from eastern Europe; mostly fleeing.  Tel Aviv was founded by 1909 by Jews as a garden suburb of Jaffa. 

Yes, our migration started with the first Aliyah of 1881, over 100 years ago.  There were about 5 Aliyote at different years.   

Because Israel has the Right of Return for Jews, the Palestinian Arabs expect it also.  "The Palestinian right of return is the political position or principle that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30,000 to 50,000 people still alive as of 2012) and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), have a right to return, and a right to the property they themselves or their forebears left behind or were forced to leave in what is now Israel and the Palestinian territories (both formerly part of the British Mandate of Palestine), as part of the 1948 Palestinian exodus, a result of the 1948 Palestine war, and due to the 1967 Six-Day War. The fact is that they had their chance in 1947 and turned it down.  They turned the offer down because it didn't include every inch of Israel and held out for taking all of it.  

Today, Israel's population amounts to 9,044,541.  

With nearly 6.8 million Jews, Israel is the only Jewish-majority country and the only explicitly Jewish state.

The Arab population is about 1,957,270.  

I see the ratio between Jews and Muslims in Israel as 7: 2. not 80% to 20%.

• The total land area is 21,640 Km2 (8,355 sq. miles), said to be about a large as  Texan rancher's driveway. Israel's area is approximately 20,770 km² (8,019 sq mi), which includes 445 km² (172 sq mi) of inland water. Israel stretches 424 km (263 mi) from north to south, and its width ranges from 114 km (71 mi) at its widest point to 10 km (6.2 mi) at its narrowest point.  Notice that while the population has grown, the size of the land has not.  That's why every almost must live in high rise apartment buildings, and another reason why people want to move out into Judea and Samaria where they may build homes.
•  It has an Exclusive Economic Zone of 26,352 km² (10,175 sq mi).
•  At the end of 2020, the population of Israel stood at approximately 9,289,760, including 1,957,270 Arabs, representing 21.1% of the total. This figure includes almost 362,000 Arab residents of East Jerusalem who hold “permanent resident” status, but not full citizenship. Thus, the number of Arab citizens of Israel was 1,595,300 at the end of 2020, constituting some 17.2% of the total population.  To continue being a Jewish State, a refuge for Jews, this 80:20 % has been the acceptable percent of Jews and Arabs. As it is, Jews themselves run the gamut from Left to Right beliefs anyway.  Any further beliefs and Israel can not continue being a really Jewish State and maintain Judaism. It faces the fate of becoming Hellenized as it is.  Israel cannot take in anymore Muslims and remain Jewish. But is it really 80:20? 
  
                    Going away party at my mom's home
• In 1980, my husband and I made aliyah to Israel from USA.  20,428 immigrants came that year.  175,000 immigrants entered in 1991.  Things were getting worse in the world for Jews.  Some 70,000 new immigrants from 95 countries made aliyah in 2022 with the assistance of the Jewish Agency and the Aliyah and Integration Ministry, the agency said in a special report published on Thursday.  
• For that matter, the Muslims have ordained already that their land of Palestine, the new Palestine, will be devoid of Jews.  They won't be allowed in at all.  So that takes care of that. Proof of their intentions and belief system.   

Jews had a life there over 3,000 years ago that lasted until 70 CE when the Romans burned down Jerusalem and their Temple.  Jerusalem was their capital.   The Palestinians do not have this claim;  only that their Mohammad landed on his flying horse on a Temple on the Temple Mount on a trip and then they flew back to Arabia.  The Jews' claim is the whole "Old Testament."  Jerusalem is not mentioned at all in the Koran.  It's in the bible 700 times.  The League of Nations recognized this and so did the United Nations.  They gave the nod to the creation of Israel as the Jewish Homeland.  

Resource:

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/molenbeek-belgium-no-go-zone

Tanakh, the Stone Edition

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

From Time Immemorial by Joan Peters

Fact About Israel from Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-israel-africans/out-of-israel-back-to-africa-idUKBRE85B0J420120612

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_population_by_country#:~:text=With%20nearly%206.8%20million%20Jews,the%20only%20explicitly%20Jewish%20state.

The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain, p. 186, 203

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_Israel

Lt.. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, The Hero of Entebbe, Uganda

 Nadene Goldfoot

                                                                      

Yonatan Netanyahu, b: March 13, 1946, New York, d: July 4, 1976, Entebbe, Uganda:  He died at the age of 30 years 3 months and 21 days.  He was Benjamin Netanyahu's oldest brother;   a Polish-American Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer who commanded the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal during Operation Entebbe, an operation to rescue Israeli hostages held at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. On June 27, Palestinian terrorists had hijacked an air France plane flying from Athens and taken it to Entebbe.  After releasing most of the non-Israelis, they held 102 passengers and crew.  The Israeli planes landed after a journey of 2,500 miles, stormed the airport and released the passengers and crew, taking them back to Israel.  The mission was successful, with 102 of the 106 hostages rescued, but Netanyahu was killed in action—the only IDF fatality during the operation.

                                                

        Entebbe hostages come home, July 4, 1976. (IDF archives)

“Well planned and flash executed impetuous operation of the Antebbe [sic] Airport in Uganda, by the brave Israeli commandos, saved the lives of a number of defenseless people who had been trapped in the grab of Air route bandits, aimed at persuing [sic] their defiled and unhuman goals and ended the adventure, alerting International Terrorism to think about the grievous consequences of their unwise and cruel attempts.”“Kindly convey my sincere greetings and admiration for successful accomplishmont [sic] of this valuable military and intelligence operation along with sympathies and condolences for the loss and martyrdom of the her” – here the letter is severed, perhaps cutting the word heroic – “unit commander dispatched to the scene to your respective chief.”was a letter from  the Mossad station chief in Tehran  from the desk of the Supreme Commander’s Staff of the Imperial Iranian Armed Forces praising the mission and extending condolences for “the loss and martyrdom” of Lt. Col. Yoni Netanyahu, the elder brother of Israel’s current prime minister.

In a small ceremony, the Netanyahu family marked 44 years on June 28, 2020 since March 13, 1946 when  Lt.-Col. Yonatan (Yoni) Netanyahu fell [on the 6th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, i.e July 4, 1976, ] while leading the soldiers of the IDF General Staff Reconnaissance Unit during Operation Yonatan to free the hostages in Entebbe, Uganda.  Being the leader of his platoon, he was the 1st and only to be picked off.  

Although born in New York in 1946, Netanyahu was raised from age two on in Israel, and his close friends remember him as “Yoni,” a nickname derived from the Hebrew equivalent of his first name.                                                                                                         

 

Yoni on right, Bibi on left in dark sweater, and Iddo in front Netanyahu (Courtesy Netanyahu family)

In the early 1960s Netanyahu returned to the United States as his Polish-born father, a Judaic studies scholar who now heads Cornell’s department of Semitic languages and literature, took a teaching position at Dropsie College in Philadelphia. But after graduating from a high school outside the city in 1964, Netanyahu returned to Israel and entered the Israeli armed forces as a paratrooper.

Yoni Netanyahu was only a flash in Harvard’s pan, an undergraduate for a year and a summer, a hard working student living off campus, remembered by only a handful of people in Cambridge. But for those few, Netanyahu – the sole Israeli commando to die in the July 4 assault on the airport in Entebbe, Uganda – was a man worthy of profound admiration, an extremely intelligent person who, in the words of his one-time adviser, had a “truly unique sense of dedication that you just don’t find in people very often, regardless of their age.”

Also dying was three hostages, all of the Revolutionary Cells members, all of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine members, and dozens of Ugandan soldiers). The commonly accepted version of his death is that Netanyahu fired on Ugandan soldiers, and was shot in response by an African from the airport's control tower. The family refused to accept this verdict, and insisted instead that he was killed by the German commanding the hijackers.  Netanyahu was shot outside the building being stormed, and would soon die in the arms of Efraim Sneh, commander of the mission's medical unit. The operation itself was a success, and was renamed as Mivtsa Yonatan ("Operation Jonathan" in English) in his honor.                                     

                Netanyahu's gravestone (with IDF logo in the upper right corner)

Netanyahu was buried in Jerusalem's Military Cemetery at Mount Herzl on July 6 following a military funeral attended by enormous crowds and top-ranking officials. Shimon Peres, then Defense Minister, said during the eulogy that "a bullet had torn the young heart of one of Israel's finest sons, one of its most courageous warriors, one of its most promising commanders – the magnificent Yonatan Netanyahu."

There are memorial trees that have been planted in his honor in front of his graduating high school, Cheltenham High School, and a memorial plaque is located in the lobby.                                            

Netanyahu married his long-time girlfriend Tirza ("Tuti") on August 17, 1967. Shortly after their wedding, they flew to the U.S., where Yoni enrolled at Harvard University. He took classes in philosophy and mathematics, excelling in both, and was on the Dean's List at the end of his first year. However, feeling restless at being away from Israel, especially with Israel skirmishing against Egypt during the War of Attrition, Yoni transferred to Jerusalem's Hebrew University in 1968. In early 1969, he left his studies and returned to the army. His father described those decisions, saying "He was dreaming of resuming his studies and planned to do so time and again. Yet he always conditioned his return to Harvard on the relaxation of the military tensions."

In 1972, he and Tuti were divorced. Netanyahu was living with his girlfriend of two years, Bruria, at the time of his death.   

                                           

Once at Harvard, Netanyahu devoted most of his energy to studying, “getting his marriage and economics off the ground,” and “brooding” about the war, Entis says. There was no room left for extra-curricular activities, although Netanyahu ran every night and often took weekend trips in Vermont and New Hampshire.

BUT WHAT sticks in everyone’s mind is Netanyahu’s overwhelming concern for Israel. Repeatedly, when he dropped in to chat with Malin, Netanyahu would say, “I just shouldn’t be here. This is a luxury. I should be at home. I should be defending my country.” Thus Malin was not surprised in the spring of 1968 when Netanyahu dropped in to announce his plans to return, explaining that “Harvard is a wonderful place to be, but I just can’t justify being here…” 

That fall, Netanyahu enrolled at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, but soon he was back in the army. He later wrote a friend in Cambridge, “Conditions in Israel at the time, however, were such to make the request for added military service, which was then addressed to former officers, too difficult to ignore.

But Netanyahu had not decided to become an Israeli career officer. To the contrary, according to one of his closest friends at Harvard, Elliot Z. Entis ’67, Netanyahu wanted very much to be a physicist before he came to Harvard… Netanyahu applied here, perhaps because of the presence of Entis, whom he had befriended at camp in New Hampshire during high school. Harvard accepted him enthusiastically; Kaufmann, who worked as an assistant director of admissions in 1967, describes Netanyahu as an “incredibly strong” candidate with a similarly impressive record and set of recommendations.                      

Netanyahu’s smooth transition from solider to academic was destroyed by the June 1967 Six Day War, an experience that “changed Yoni incredibly,” Entis says... Seeing many of his friends die set off a process of inner turmoil that ultimately would lead Netanyahu – who was himself seriously wounded in the left elbow during the fighting – to leave Harvard, to become a career officer, to “resolve that what he believed in he would have to live by,” as Entis says.

Netanyahu’s Harvard friends, like Seamus P. Malin ’62, his adviser in 1967-68 and the current director of financial aid, are wary that their eulogies be mistaken for run-of-the-mill posthumous praise, and they offer eerily similar descriptions of Netanyahu’s extraordinary qualities. 

                                                               

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, "The pain over Yoni's passing has only grown with the years and it is difficult to find comfort."Author Herman Wouk wrote that Netanyahu was already a legend in Israel even before his death at the age of 30. Wouk wrote:  He was a taciturn philosopher-soldier of terrific endurance, a hard-fibered, charismatic young leader, a magnificent fighting man. On the Golan Heights, in the Yom Kippur War, the unit he led was part of the force that held back a sea of Soviet tanks manned by Syrians, in a celebrated stand; and after Entebbe, "Yoni" became in Israel almost a symbol of the nation itself. Today his name is spoken there with somber reverence.                                                               

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his own "hard line against all 

terrorists" came as a result of the death of his brother.  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/event_yoni_netanyahu280620

https://www.jpost.com/features/in-thespotlight/yonatan-netanyahus-odyssey-from-harvard-to-entebbe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonatan_Netanyahu