Arts & Entertainment
Wednesday's L.A. Jewish Film Festival Showings in Beverly Hills
This will be the event's last screening in Beverly Hills until next year.
is screening Follow Me: The Yoni Netanyahu Story Wednesday as part of the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival.
The 84-minute film is about the brother of current Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Yoni was an elite Army commando who was killed while leading a rescue attempt to retrieve Israeli hostages from a hijacked flight at Uganda's Entebbe Airport in 1976.
Israeli Consul General David Siegel will introduce the film and Dr. Iddo Netanyahu, Yoni and Prime Minister Netanyahu's brother from Israel, is attending as a special guest.
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Prior to Follow Me, the 20-minute film Cohen on the Bridge about a 1976 hostage rescue in Entebbe, Uganda will screen. There will be a Q&A with the director of the film, Andrew Wainrib.
The screening is taking place from 7:30-10:30 p.m. The cost is $9-12 a ticket.
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