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Mordechai Vanunu (Hebrew: מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1954), also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986.
Aug 4, 2015 · Mordechai Vanunu, who leaked Israel's nuclear secrets in 1986, has petitioned the High Court of Justice for the eighth time to lift the ban on his travel abroad. He claims he only wants to visit his wife's family, but the court has rejected his requests in the past.
Mordechai Vanunu is a former nuclear technician and whistleblower who revealed Israel's nuclear weapons programme in 1986. He was kidnapped, imprisoned and restricted by the Israeli government for his courageous peace activism.
Apr 21, 2004 · After 18 years behind bars for revealing Israeli nuclear secrets, a defiant Mordechai Vanunu headed out of prison today a partly free man.
Mar 30, 2018 · In March 1988, Mordechai Vanunu, a junior technician at the Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, was convicted of espionage and treason, after having made available to unauthorized persons photographs and information about the reactor in that southern Israeli city.
- Adam Raz
development of Israeli nuclear program. …a result of revelations by Mordechai Vanunu, a technician who worked at Dimona from 1977 to 1985. Before leaving his job, Vanunu took dozens of photographs of Dimona’s most secret areas, as well as of plutonium components, of a full-scale model of a thermonuclear bomb, and of work on tritium….
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The anti-nuclear whistle-blower, Mordechai Vanunu, was sentenced to six months in prison for breaching arbitrary restrictions on his freedom of expression and movement. Amnesty International condemns the decision and calls for Israel to lift the restrictions and allow him to travel abroad.
