The author, Greenfield, is perhaps too young to remember from his own memory that the daring raid to free the kidnapped passengers being held hostage at the airport in Entebbe was by Yoni Netanyahu, Benjamin Netanyahu’s brother:
http://www.yoni.org.il/en/jonathan.php
Correction to what I just wrote. I just checked and I was mistaken. Benjamin Netanyahu WAS part of the daring operation to free the kidnapped airline passengers at Entebbe. My apologies.
See the following:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena_Flight_571