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...been a year of jolting change for Mordechai Vanunu. Until last November he had worked as a technician in Israel's top-secret nuclear research center at Dimona in the Negev desert. Then Vanunu, 32, was dismissed from his job, ostensibly as part of a government cost-cutting move. He left Israel last spring on a vacation trip that took him to Greece, Bangkok and finally Sydney, Australia, where he reportedly converted to Christianity. Then he and a shadowy Colombian journalist hit upon a plan: they would sell Vanunu's inside account of Israel's nuclear defense program, never before...
...TIME has learned, Israel was asked to help back it up. Major General Uri Simhoni, the Israeli defense attache in Washington, promised that if the U.S. plan went awry, "we will intercept (the Egyptian pilot) and force him to land at one of our air force bases in the Negev...
...that goal. The major example of that ambiguous status known as having "a bomb in the basement" is Israel. The Israelis probably developed an atomic weapon as early as 1968, in all likelihood using reprocessed plutonium from their top-secret, French-built research reactor at Dimona, in the Negev desert. By 1973, Israel was believed to possess at least 13 nuclear weapons...
arsenal. The Daily claimed that Israel has an unspecified number of nuclear-tipped, mobile Jericho II intermediate-range ballistic missiles based in the Negev desert and on the Golan Heights. The Daily also said that Israel possesses nuclear artillery shells. If true, that would mean Israel's atomic capability has been drastically underestimated. Jerusalem had no comment on the newsletter's claims...
...large part to the shortage of housing: with rental accommodations almost nonexistent and mortgages scarce, the ill-qualified immigrants who longed to settle in Jerusalem, the city of their prayers, found themselves herded instead into cheerless prefabricated tent towns, remote villages precariously close to Arab positions or the Negev wilderness. The more fortunate families that managed to stay in Jerusalem did well to find single rooms, in abandoned Arab houses. There was little work to be found and little food. Often young boys lived off what they could pick from the pockets of Ashkenazim...