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Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel's nuclear weapons program in 1986, after which he was kidnapped by Mossad and jailed for 18 years. He is still forbidden from communicating with foreigners. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by cypherpunks@lemmy.ml to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47164684

here is a poem he wrote while in prison in 1987: https://web.archive.org/web/20160708233137/www.vanunu.com/uscampaign/mvpoemspy.html

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[–] john_lemmy@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

The sections starting with the powerplant up to the arrest read like a spy thriller. Just wild.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

The death penalty in Israel is restricted to special circumstances, and only one execution has ever taken place there, which was Adolf Eichmann, who was executed on 1 June 1962 after being abducted from Argentina in 1960 and tried in Israel for his role in the Holocaust.

That’s got to be updated, unfortunately.