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Israel’s Nuclear Secret-Spilling Spy Back in Jerusalem Court

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Mordechai Vanunu was sentenced to a long prison term in Israel and was eventually released in 2004 under severe restrictions.

The spy known for spilling Israel’s nuclear secrets was back in court on Sunday and facing jail time once again for violating the terms of release, including allegedly meeting with foreigners and moving apartments without notifying the police.

Mordechai Vanunu, a nuclear technician, was convicted of treason and espionage in 1988 for revealing details of Israel’s atomic weapons program in Dimona – which Israel has never officially acknowledged – to the British press in 1986. After being apprehended by the Mossad in a secret operation in Rome, he was sentenced to a long prison term in Israel and was eventually released in 2004 under severe restrictions.

The Israel Police filed three different counts of parole violations against Vanunu on Sunday, including meeting with foreign citizens for a time exceeding 30 minutes and moving apartments without notifying the authorities. Vanunu is also charged with allegedly revealing privileged information during an interview he gave to Channel 2 News in September 2015.

According to the indictment, Vanunu secretly met with two U.S. citizens in a hotel in East Jerusalem. Avigdor Feldman, Vanunu’s lawyer, dismissed the charges as politically motivated and dealing with petty violations, saying that the meeting occurred three years ago and the apartment his client moved into was in the very same building as his previous home.

“Filing an indictment for meeting two foreigners three years ago, for moving apartments in the same building. and for giving an interview that has been properly presented to the military censorship is a new low the peak of the harassment that the state of Israel has subjected Vanunu to,” stated Feldman.

Vanunu, 62 years old and born in Morocco to an Orthodox Jewish family, also goes by the name John Crossman – which he adopted following his conversion to the Anglican Church of Australia prior to his arrest. He was jailed once again for six months in 2007 for violating the terms of his release.

Hillel Maier (TPS)

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