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Meet the only living Israeli prime minister ever to order the IDF to destroy a foreign nuclear reactor
by Joel C. Rosenberg
June 18, 2021

Israel is the only country in the world to have ever used military force to destroy the nuclear program of an enemy country. And Israel has done so not once, but twice.The first time was exactly 40 years ago this month, when then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the IDF to bomb the Osirak nuclear reactor in Iraq on June 7, 1981. The second time was on September 6, 2007, when then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ordered the IDF to bomb the Al Kibar nuclear reactor in northeast Syria. Might Israel be forced to take such action for a third time, against Iran’s grave and growing nuclear program? READ MORE