Mordechai Vanunu

Pause to ponder: Beyond coincidence - opinion

It is an interesting coincidence that the screening of 'NAZA' in Venice took place in the same year as the 40th anniversary of Mordechai Vanunu's revelation that Israel had a nuclear plant.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor receive the Special Jury Award for "Naza" during the closing ceremony of the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, Italy, September 12, 2026.
Britain's opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn leaves his home in London, Britain, April 2, 2018.

Did Jeremy Corbyn visit the Knesset to free nuclear secret seller Vanunu?

Corbyn was deeply involved in efforts to secure the early release of Mordechai Vanunu, who was sent to prison in 1987 for selling Israeli nuclear secrets to the Sunday Times of London.

|ByLAHAV HARKOV
Amnon Zichroni

Israeli lawyer famous for his controversial clientele dies at 82

The cigar-chomping attorney’s clients included Dimona nuclear whistle-blower Mordechai Vanunu, convicted Iran collaborator Nahum Manbar, KGB spy Shabtai Kalmanovich and Interior Minister Arye Deri.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israel Israel News Mordechai Vanunu

Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Vanunu offered a move to Oslo

Moredchai Vanunu was jailed and served an 18-year sentence after discussing his work at the Dimona nuclear reactor with a British newspaper in 1986.

|ByREUTERS

Israeli nuclear secret-leaker sentenced for contact with foreigners

The former nuclear technician at the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona previously served an 18-year prison sentence for revealing information about Israel’s atomic program in 1986.

JULY 10, 2017ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Mordechai Vanunu at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court