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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Syrian nuclear reactor

Screen capture from video of International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi giving an interview in Damascus, Syria, June 4, 2025. (Abdelrahman Shaheen/AP)
June 5, 2025, 1:27 pm
IAEA chief: Syria to give inspectors immediate access to suspected former nuclear sites
UN watchdog’s head Rafael Grossi says officials will look at 4 locations, including Deir Ezzor facility Israel bombed in 2007; says open to Damascus pursuing non-weapon program
By AP and ToI Staff
The Syrian nuclear reactor site before it was destroyed by the IDF in 2007, as seen by satellite (Photo: Google Earth)
October 9, 2022, 3:06 pm
How Israel nearly failed to spot Syria’s nuclear reactor, from the man who found it
Amnon Sofrin, ex-head of Mossad intelligence, recalls a misguided search, an eventual realization, and the moment he told the PM that Israel faced an immediate existential threat
By Amir Bar Shalom
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks during a conference in Tel Aviv, on February 7, 2018. (Flash90)
April 14, 2021, 3:47 am
Olmert says Iran Natanz bomb could have been planted 10-15 years ago
Former prime minister denies any direct knowledge of operation, pans Netanyahu’s ‘smug bragging’ amid spate of leaks crediting Mossad spy agency for blast at nuke plant
By ToI Staff
In this Oct. 28, 1997 photo, Argentina's President Carlos Menem talks to reporters in Buenos Aires. ( AP Photo/Daniel Muzio, File)
February 18, 2021, 12:05 pm
The president who crossed Iran: Why Carlos Menem, dead at 90, isn’t old news
Decades ago, Argentina’s president found himself mired in a deadly sequence of interactions with Iran, as the regime pressed relentlessly for the bomb; if only that were history
By David Horovitz
Pilots and crews who took part in the 2007 bombing of the Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir a-Zour take part in a ceremony marking the planes that participated in the operation, on September 6, 2018 at the Hatzerim Air Force Base in southern Israel. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
September 7, 2018, 10:35 am
Air Force marks planes to commemorate bombing Syria reactor in 2007
At Hatzerim Air Base ceremony, stickers with the operation’s symbol placed on F-15i and F-16i jets that destroyed facility in Deir el-Zour
By ToI Staff
In this Jauary 25, 2017 photo, former North Korean deputy ambassador to the UK, Thae Yong-Ho, center, speaks with media at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Seoul, South Korea. (Ed Jones, Pool Photo via AP)
July 9, 2018, 12:34 pm
North Korea offered Israel a halt to its missile sales to Iran for $1b — report
According to a new book by a Pyongyang defector, Israel refused the 1999 proposal, suggested sending aid instead
By ToI Staff
Before and after satellite images of the Syrian nuclear reactor at al-Kibar, which was reportedly struck by Israel in 2007.(AP/DigitalGlobe)
June 6, 2018, 6:12 am
MKs warned about Syria’s nuke plans years before 2007 reactor strike – report
Committee headed by Yuval Steinitz sent PM Sharon a memo in 2004 saying that Damascus was working on a nuclear program
By ToI Staff
Tzipi Livni and Ehud Olmert at a cabinet meeting in 2007 (photo credit: Flash90)
March 24, 2018, 10:28 pm
Livni: Ehud Olmert ‘unfit’ to return to politics
Zionist Union MK, who served under subsequently jailed prime minister, says Israel must be led by ‘untarnished people’
By ToI Staff
Ehud Olmert, right, and Ehud Barak in the Knesset on March 30, 2009. Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 23, 2018, 5:09 am
Decade after clandestine Syria strike, revelation sparks a war for credit
Former leaders snipe at each other over who said what in lead-up to Israel’s bombing of Assad’s nuclear facility in 2007, while ex-spies blame each other for failing to spot danger
By Judah Ari Gross
A site in western Syria suspected of housing a potential nuclear facility, captured on June 19, 2014. (Google Earth)
March 22, 2018, 11:30 am
As Israel fetes 2007 strike on Syria nuclear reactor, is Assad building another?
A US think tank revisits claims that the regime is constructing an underground facility, finding worrying questions but no real answers
By Judah Ari Gross
This image released by Netflix shows Kevin Spacey in a scene from 'House Of Cards.' (David Giesbrecht/Netflix via AP)
March 21, 2018, 8:28 pm
Barak says Olmert was ‘never really prime minister,’ likens him to Kevin Spacey
Olmert ‘played the role very well,’ just like Spacey ‘played the president exceptionally well’ in House of Cards, says Barak. ‘That didn’t make him president’
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly cabinet meeting in the southern city of Dimona, March 20, 2018. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
March 21, 2018, 7:06 pm
Netanyahu: Syrian reactor raid shows Israel won’t let its enemies get nukes
PM hails 2007 strike, doesn’t mention Tehran, but intelligence minister sends direct ‘message to Iran’: We won’t let anybody who threatens to destroy Israel get nuclear capability
By AFP and ToI Staff
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party in the Knesset, March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 21, 2018, 6:29 pm
Defense minister regrets releasing details of attack on Syrian nuclear reactor
Liberman condemns public spat between former military intelligence and Mossad chiefs over who uncovered intel on reactor
By Stuart Winer
An F-16I fighter jet of the Israeli Air Force's 119th Squadron prepares to take off during an operation to bomb a Syrian nuclear reactor in Deir Ezzor on September 5, 2007. (Israel Defense Forces)
March 21, 2018, 2:05 pm
Blast from the past: 8 things to know for March 21
With the open secret now out, coverage looks at details of the 2007 raid on a Syrian nuclear reactor, the intel failures leading up to it and why it was kept under wraps until now
By Joshua Davidovich
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting of his Yisrael Beytenu party at the Knesset on March 12, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
March 21, 2018, 12:02 pm
Ministers threaten Iran as details of 2007 strike on Syria emerge
Liberman warns ‘enemies’ that IDF has grown even stronger, while intelligence minister vows ‘Israel will never allow countries like Iran… to have nuclear weapons’
By Michael Bachner
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