Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.—Exodus 9:10
By www.roytov.com
It depicts an area south of Tel Aviv. On the seashore, the Palmahim air base is marked. At the top, is Rishon LeTziyon (First to Zion), one of Israel’s largest cities. Rehovot is also a large city, home to the Weizmann Institute of Science
Hiding in small letters north of the town of Yavne is a place named “Gan Soreq.” Near it, but not marked in the map, is Soreq Nuclear Research Center, home to one of Israel’s two nuclear reactors. The other one is the much larger and better known Negev Nuclear Research Center, located near Dimona. Would you live near any of them if they weren’t safe?
Soreq Nuclear Research Center BEYOND NUCLEAR
Negev Nuclear Research Center Logo Hebrew reads “kamag,” the center’s name acronym
The Whistleblower of Dimona: Israel, Vanunu, and the Bomb
Until now, Israel claimed its reactors were safe. Few cases of accidents in them have become public; most of the events were officially denied. In Soreq, one of the workers of a private company working in the site died after being exposed to radioactive radiation in June 1990. No other case was ever admitted by Israel.
Dr. Avner Cohen claims that an accident caused the death of a worker, as well as the radioactive contamination of a sensitive area of Dimona, in 1966. Supporting his claim, a trial started in 2010, after an undisclosed man placed charges claiming that a “serious nuclear accident” took place in the 1960s in Dimona.
The event exposed workers to ionizing radiation and poisonous chemicals. 45 People placed similar charges at the Israel Atomic Energy Commission. The Commission claims the charges are “very far from the truth.” All other reports on Israeli nuclear accidents could not be confirmed in any way until April 2013, when a dramatic decision was taken by the government.
Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima
Only One Victim?
Anyone even remotely acquainted with Israelis understands that Israel’s admission of only one victim in its nuclear programs makes no sense. Yitzhak Rabin often complained about the “It will be OK”* Israeli spirit. “It will be OK,” is the invariable Israeli answer to any problem.
It seldom checks out; it is seldom said while knowing the solution to the problem. Hearing an Israeli saying “It will be OK,” one should begin to seriously worry. If they add “Don’t worry,”** drop everything and run away as fast as you can. Plutonium sauce is likely to be a staple in Dimona’s cafeteria.
In the sad Israeli reality, Attorney Ilan Kaner amounts to a modern Don Quixote. Placing a lawsuit against Israel Atomic Energy Commission, headed by Prime Minister Netanyahu, equals suicide. Yet, he is a modern and smarter Don Quixote. He didn’t place just one lawsuit. He placed 118 lawsuits of victims and an undisclosed number of lawsuits of families of deceased workers.The Ministry of Justice panicked, and with a good reason; contrary to early claims that the rate of cancer for workers equals the rate in the Jewish population, the attorney has proof that in certain installations 50% of the workers contracted cancer. After the decision to create the committee, Mr. Kaner said:
“We said already 15 years ago that the correct way is the legislation of the compensation instead of tiredly disclosing everything in Court. We are careful, we had bad experiences with similar (secret) committees created in the past. There were ugly tricks against sick workers and their families, there were ‘acts of carcasses’ (Hebrew idiom, roughly “dirty tricks”) by the authorities.”
Roi Tov is a graduate—among others—of Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute of Science. In addition to his memoir, Tov is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Molecular Physics and other scientific journals. He won various travel writing and photography awards.
In his writings, he tries to reveal life in Israel as a Christian Israel Defense Force (IDF) officer—from human rights violations to the use of an extensive network of underground agents. He was recognized first as a refugee and subsequently as political prisoner of Bolivia.
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