Osirak

Striking Osirak: The Begin Doctrine's enduring relevance in Israel - opinion

The “Begin Doctrine” dictates that Israel will not sit idly by and let an avowed enemy develop nuclear weapons.

|ByMARK REGEV
PRIME MINISTER Menachem Begin holds a special press conference to announce the Osirak reactor bombing, June 9, 1981. Also present: Uri Porat, PM media adviser (L) and IDF Chief of Staff Rafael ‘Raful’ Eitan (R).
THE NATANZ uranium enrichment facility, south of Tehran, 2005: According to foreign reports, Israel’s effort has yielded a decade of operational successes, including the sabotage of the Natanz facility last year.

Is it time for a new approach to deal with the Iranian threat? -opinion

The Begin Doctrine has since served as the guiding Israeli principle dictating the use of “all means necessary” to prevent its enemies from acquiring nuclear weapons.

|ByGIL MURCIANO
BULLET-RIDDLED mural of Saddam Hussein in southern Iraq, along the road to Baghdad

Supreme Court rules grip used in the bombing of Iraqi’s Osirak reactor can be auctioned

The state requested a temporary order to prevent the sale of a control stick from an Israeli warplane that took part in the mission to bomb Iraq’s Osirak nuclear reactor.

|ByANNA AHRONHEIM