''To Pay the Price'' is a 2009 play by Peter-Adrian Cohen based in part on the letters of Israeli hero

Yonatan Netanyahu Yonatan "Yoni" Netanyahu ( he, יונתן נתניהו; March 13, 1946 – July 4, 1976) was an American-born Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officer who commanded the elite commando unit Sayeret Matkal during Operation Entebbe, an operation to rescu ...

, who was killed in action during

Operation Entebbe Operation Entebbe, also known as the Entebbe Raid or Operation Thunderbolt, was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. A week earl ...

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airport, by

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n soldiers, when the Israeli military rescued hostages after an aircraft hijacking by

Palestinian Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...

terrorists. Netanyahu was the leader of the assault The play, produced by North Carolina's Theatre Or opened off-off Broadway in New York in June 2009 during the ''Festival of Jewish Theater and Ideas. In addition to Netanyahu's letters, the playwright drew on interviews he conducted with Netanyahu's friends and family. The play had been scheduled to run at the

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company near Boston, Massachusetts in 2008. The run was canceled by the

Netanyahu Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu (; ; born 21 October 1949) is an Israeli politician who served as the ninth prime minister of Israel from 1996 to 1999 and again from 2009 to 2021. He is currently serving as Leader of the Opposition and Chairman of ...

family because the theater was intending to run the play as a companion piece to ''

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'', a story of a pro-Palestinian American activist.Under pressure, New Rep cancels play, Boston Globe, May 9, 2007
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2009 plays Docudrama plays Plays about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict Plays based on actual events Biographical plays about military leaders American plays {{2000s-play-stub