Documentary Description
Mordechai
Vanunu, Israel’s nuclear whistle blower, was jailed in 1986 for
publishing photographs of Israel’s nuclear bomb factory at Dimona.
Olenka Frenkiel reveals the extent of Israel’s nuclear gagging. The
Sunday Times Revelations hit the press in October 1986. Vanunu has
spent 17 years in jail, a11 of which were in a minute solitary
confinement cell – and he has just had his appeal for parole denied. He
will stay in jail until 2004, when his term is expected to end.
Sunday Times journalist Peter Hounam heard rumours in 1986 that an
Israeli whistleblower was offering proof of what the world had long
suspected. His revelations confirmed that Israel was building advanced
nuclear weapons. After the Sunday Times published this scoop, Vanunu
was kidnapped in London by Mossad agents and illegally smuggled back to
Israel. He was tried in secret and convicted of treason and spying.
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