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Other	Person	Colonel Yosef Zeira was a stern department commander in Unit 8200, an Israeli Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit.

Colonel Yosef Zeira was a stern department commander in Unit 8200, an Israel Signals Intelligence (Sigint) unit. He was responsible for briefing a team of officers, including Ari Ben-Menashe, about the secret commando raid to rescue Israel and other passengers from a hijacked Air France jet at Entebbe Airport in Uganda in July 1976. He ordered the team to "disappear" for the duration of the operation, with no contact with their families.¹

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1. Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. TrineDay, 1992. ↩︎