"Yoni, my beloved brother, hero of Israel, I miss you every day," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday at a memorial ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem marking the 39th anniversary of the death of Lt. Col. Yonatan Netanyahu, the Sayeret Matkal commander who was killed during the famous Entebbe counterterrorist hostage-rescue operation in 1976. Tuesday's ceremony was attended by the prime minister, his wife, Sara, and his brother Iddo, as well as other members of the Netanyahu family. Also present were President Reuven Rivlin, Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein and many other political and defense officials. Benjamin and Iddo Netanyahu recited the mourner's prayer over the grave of their late older brother. Mossad chief Tamir Pardo, who was Yonatan Netanyahu's radio operator during the Entebbe operation, spoke at the ceremony, as did Sara Guter Davidson, one of the hostages freed at Entebbe.
