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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 342

Israel Atomic Energy Commission

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a meeting with US President Joe Biden on the sidelines of the 78th United Nations General Assembly in New York City on September 20, 2023. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP)
September 23, 2023, 9:24 pm
Netanyahu denies squeezing Israel’s nuclear agency not to oppose Saudi enrichment
PM refutes TV report he is exerting heavy pressure on panel; Riyadh’s desire to enrich uranium as part of civilian nuclear program worries officials in Jerusalem and Washington
By ToI Staff
Likud MK David Amsalem (left) reacts during a discussion and a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2023, 11:24 am
Netanyahu gives Amsalem responsibility for sensitive atomic energy authority
While PM maintains ultimate control of Israel Atomic Energy Commission, Likud colleague will reportedly be his representative; opposition MK raps putting firebrand minister in role
By ToI Staff
Technicians work at the Iranian Arak heavy water reactor, 150 miles southwest of the capital Tehran, on December 23, 2019. (Atomic Energy Organization of Iran via AP)
March 19, 2023, 11:22 am
Ex-chief of atomic commission warns overhaul will undercut fight against Iran
In letter to Netanyahu, Zeev Snir notes judicial shakeup was not a key goal that PM set for government, rails at branding of protesters as ‘leftists, anarchists and terrorists’
By ToI Staff
The Israeli civilian nuclear reactor at Nahal Sorek. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
March 9, 2023, 7:34 pm
80 ex-nuclear workers demand government halt ‘crazy legislative blitz’
Designed to resemble Israel’s Declaration of Independence, petition warns judicial revamp poses ‘real danger’ to country, says leaders should seek broad consensus for changes
By Ash Obel
Israel Atomic Energy Commission chief Moshe Edri addresses the IAEA General Assembly in Vienna, September 28, 2022 (courtesy)
September 28, 2022, 2:51 pm
Israel tells nuclear watchdog that Iran is source of Middle East instability
At annual conference, Atomic Energy Commission chief Moshe Edri says Tehran and Damascus are deceiving IAEA
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Yair Lapid (R) shakes hands with the incoming director general of Israel's Atomic Energy Commission, Moshe Edri, August 1, 2022. (Haim Zach/GPO)
August 1, 2022, 4:52 pm
At atomic agency ceremony, Lapid says Israel’s ‘other capabilities’ keep it safe
PM makes veiled reference to country’s purported nukes, in apparent warning to Tehran; Alternative PM Bennett says ‘enormous resources’ put into preventing nuclear-armed Iran
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, August 13, 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
March 10, 2020, 5:45 pm
Worker at Israel’s nuclear energy authority charged with hacking computer system
Charge sheet for plea bargain states employee at secretive body broke in at least 70 times over 18-month period; no details given on motive; gag order imposed on details of case
By ToI Staff
(Above and at article top:) The military wing of the Gaza-based Islamic Jihad terror group releases a video threatening rocket attacks on the nuclear reactor in Dimona and other sensitive sites in Israel, May 4, 2019. (Screen grab)
June 24, 2019, 4:01 pm
Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor isn’t Chernobyl, but does have vulnerabilities
A disaster at Israel’s reactor would be far less catastrophic than the 1986 meltdown, but the core is being kept in service far longer than intended, and experts warn that’s risky
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative. A plutonium core from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in the United States in 1946. (US government/Wikimedia)
May 2, 2019, 8:01 pm
Israel had plutonium core ready to turn into nuke in ’67 war, US journal reveals
Former Israeli atomic official Elie Geisler describes guarding the device, which he says was hidden in a former British police station in central Israel
By Judah Ari Gross
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
September 20, 2018, 11:47 am
Israel says it’s reinforcing its nuclear sites because of Iranian threats
In rare remark, Israeli atomic energy chief tells international conference that Jewish state is upgrading its facilities to ‘withstand any attack’
By Judah Ari Gross
View of the nuclear reactor in Dimona, southern Israel, in 2016. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
June 28, 2018, 8:11 am
Israel said to fortify nuclear reactors against Iranian missile strikes
Atomic energy officials say Iranian or Hezbollah attack on facilities unlikely to endanger population, but would serve as propaganda coup
By ToI Staff
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
September 19, 2017, 10:34 am
Government has no plans to close aging Dimona nuclear facility
Officials says reactor doesn’t pose any safety concerns despite having exceeded its life expectancy by more than a decade
By ToI Staff
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
September 18, 2017, 5:40 pm
State to compensate cancer-stricken Dimona nuclear workers
After years-long legal battle, government to pay out NIS 78 million to 168 former staff of Israel Atomic Energy Commission
By ToI Staff
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
August 13, 2017, 7:08 pm
Government moves to end workers’ strike at secretive nuclear facility
Officials order scientists back to work at Dimona plant citing ‘an immediate risk’ to ‘activities essential to Israel’
By AFP
A partial view of the Dimona nuclear power plant in the southern Israeli Negev desert, on September 8, 2002. (AFP/Thomas Coex)
August 13, 2017, 12:11 pm
Government looking to end Dimona nuclear scientist strike
Cabinet reportedly to approve ordinance ordering workers at top secret facility to continue carrying out essential work
By ToI Staff
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