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Emmanuel Yehuda Moreno (Hebrew: עמנואל יהודה מורנו,) (June 17, 1971 - August 19, 2006), was an Israeli Lieutenant Colonel of one of the Israel Defense Forces' most elite units, Sayeret Matkal, who fell in combat at the end of the Second Lebanon War.
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Moreno's grandmother, Ninette Moreno, was one of the passengers on Air France Flight 139, which was hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1976 and taken to Entebbe, where the passengers were rescued in Operation Entebbe.
On April 27, 2008, the head of the IDF Intelligence Division awarded Emmanuel with the "Head of Regional Command Citation" (Hebrew: צל"ש אלוף) "for his numerous years of dedication to the security of the State of Israel and his participation in several IDF operations throughout the Second Lebanon War."