Tag: Nazi: First Nuclear Device

NOVANEWS ‘The De Facto Coup D’état’: When Moshe Dayan Tried to Steal Israel’s First Nuclear Device By Ian Greenhalgh  A recently published book in the United States sheds light on a mysterious and dramatic incident in the history of the Israeli nuclear project, detailing how Yitzhak (Yicha) Yaakov was sent to take control of a nuclear device south of Tel Aviv. The real target, though, was much larger and even more important: the prime minister Then-Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan onboard a helicopter while touring army installations in the West Bank, September 1967.  Haaretz ‘The De Facto Coup D’état’: When Moshe Dayan Tried to Steal Israel’s First Nuclear Device A few years ago, a book was published in the United States that deals, among other things, wit...