Uganda leader tells Netanyahu he will set up museum at Entebbe

President Shimon Peres's "Facing Tomorrow" presidential conference in Jerusalem on Wednesday brought together Ugandan President Gen. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and members of the Netanyahu family, whose oldest son, Yoni, was killed in the 1976 Operation Thunderbolt.

Museveni announced that the only remaining structure of the old Entebbe airport, the control tower, would be turned into a museum commemorating the operation later renamed "Operation Yoni."

During the operation, 248 passengers and 12 crew members were rescued from the Entebbe airport, where they had been held hostage after Air France flight 139 was hijacked by the PFLP and German terror cells.

"The IDF operation in Entebbe was a turning point for the global war on terror and for the struggle of the Ugandan nation against the autocratic rule of [then-leader] Idi Amin," Netanyahu said during Wednesday's meeting.