Germany ‘secretly financed’ much of Israel’s Dimona nuclear project, report claims

Since the Dimona nuclear reactor in Israel’s Negev Desert was first exposed in December 1960, the country’s nuclear project has remained the subject of extensive research, books, and investigative reporting, with a recent report claiming that Germany “secretly financed” the project. The report by the Israeli daily Haaretz noted that seminal works, including Avner Cohen’s Israel and the Bomb, along with studies by Seymour Hersh, Zaki Shalom, and Adam Raz, have examined the origins, development, and secrecy surrounding the program. In 2024, journalist Shany Haziza’s documentary series The Atom and Me added a personal and social dimension to the story. Yet despite decades of research, two major questions have remained unresolved: how much the project cost, and who paid for […]