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Dimona

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Dimona (dīmō`nə) [Heb.,=wasting], town (1994 pop. 30,400), S Israel, in the Negev Desert. It is the seat of the Negev Nuclear Research Center. Mining and the production of textiles, chemicals, and processed minerals are also important. A development town, it was founded in 1955 and named for ancient Dimonah, which was located nearby. Because of its capacity as a site for nuclear weapons, Dimona was a target of Iraqi missiles in the Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf Wars or Gulf Wars, two conflicts involving Iraq and U.S.-led coalitions in the late 20th and early 21st cent.

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The daily reported Ashkenazi as saying that the weapons arsenal included missiles able to reach Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, as well Dimona in the Negev desert, where Arab Bedouin account for 12 percent of the Palestinian minority in Israel.
This would put the cities of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem within range, as well as the Jewish state's secretive and undeclared nuclear reactor at Dimona.
Swedish 'Organs Libel' journalist Bostrom is greeted with jeers; Dimona Conference loses funding for allowing him to speak.
 
 
 
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