Lawsuit: US charities fund Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program
A new federal lawsuit in the United States seeks immediate release of a government report about how American charities contribute to Israel’s secret nuclear weapons program. ● The Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy has filed a lawsuit in the DC District Court to obtain an unclassified study conducted in 1987 for the Pentagon titled "Current Technology Issues in Israel." The closely-held report named three institutions-- Israel’s Weizmann Institute, Technion University, and Hebrew University-- which raise “substantial tax-exempt charitable funding through affiliates in the United States.” The study discovered that Technion University technicians were involved in developing nuclear missile re-entry vehicles and were working at Israel’s Dimona nuclear weapons plant. Computer scientists at the American Friends of the Hebrew University-- working at the Soreq nuclear facilities in Israel-- were also "developing the kind of codes which will enable them to make hydrogen bombs," according to the suit.