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To: blebovits who wrote (736)	4/22/2001 2:48:54 PM
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Sunday April 22 8:06 AM ET Report: Israel Arrests Scientist LONDON (AP) - A retired Israeli military scientist who was believed to be involved the country's nuclear program has been arrested in Israel after his relationship with a Russian woman raised suspicions, the Sunday Times newspaper of London reported. Yitzhak Yaakov, 75, was arrested by a security branch of Israel's Defense Ministry on March 28 and has been questioned about his relationship with the unidentified Russian woman, the British newspaper reported. Yaakov, who holds both Israeli and U.S. citizenship, retired almost 25 years ago from the Israeli army. He served in the military as a brigadier general and chief of research and development, the newspaper said. Israeli police and the office of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (news - web sites) refused to comment Sunday on the report. The Times said Yaakov's friends in the United States, where he worked until last year as chairman of the New York-based company Constellation 3D Inc., expressed surprise at the news of his arrest. The computer hardware company develops advanced optical data storage products, and has branches in Israel and Russia. Yaakov was believed to have been involved in Israel's nuclear program during his time in the military, and when he worked as the chief scientist at the Ministry of Industry, The Times said. The U.S. State Department in Washington told the newspaper that Yaakov should be entitled to consular assistance. The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv told The Associated Press it could not comment on the case. Israel has a nuclear reactor in Dimona, in the Negev Desert in the south of the country, and is widely assumed to have nuclear weapons. But the country has always refused to comment on its nuclear capabilities. Mordechai Vanunu, a technician who worked at Israel's nuclear reactor at Dimona, is serving 18 years in prison for giving pictures taken inside the reactor to The Sunday Times in 1986. Based on the photographs, nuclear experts said Israel had the world's sixth-largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. The CIA (news - web sites) has estimated more recently that Israel has between 200 and 400 nuclear weapons. dailynews.yahoo.com