On the bomb – Yossi Melman in Haaretz:

‘One of the Israeli defense establishment's longstanding white lies is expressed in the military censor's demand to add the words "according to foreign reports." In particular, this phrase accompanies reports about what the whole world has known for 55 years: Israel has the bomb. Perhaps the "foreign reports" bluff will now evaporate.
Public broadcaster Kan has aired the first episode of a new docuseries, "The Atom and Me," which for the first time discloses the story behind Israel's nuclear program. The first episode deals with the birth of the atomic project: how Israel purchased a nuclear reactor from France, which was then built in Dimona, and which Israel has operated since 1960. But this time, I won't add the words "according to foreign reports," because some of the interviewees in the series, like Amos Eiran, a former director general of the Prime Minister's Office, talk about an "atomic weapon."’

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‘Since the early 1960s, because of international pressure, especially by the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson administrations, Israel's leaders held to a policy that became known as "nuclear ambiguity." Israel neither confirmed nor denied that it possessed nuclear weapons. That was one of the most important strategic decisions in the years of our existence, and official Israel must adhere to it – certainly as long as Iran hasn't yet assembled nuclear weapons.
Nonetheless, the military censor's stubbornness in forcing journalists to add the phrase "according to foreign reports" to every article on the subject is ludicrous and obsolete.’

Read the article here.

The slightly absurd work of the military censor won’t come to an end anytime soon, according to foreign reports.

The question remains: when will the Shia-bomb come into existence?

And when will Saudi-Arabia have the bomb, with or without the help of Israel?