Operation Geschäftsfreund: How West Germany Paid for Israel’s Nuclear Bomb

Operation Geschäftsfreund: How West Germany Paid for Israel’s Nuclear Bomb

Freddie Ponton21st Century Wire In March 2026, an investigation in Haaretz argued that West Germany may have “secretly financed” much of Israel’s Dimona nuclear project through off‑the‑books loans worth roughly 2 billion Deutschmarks, funneled under the cover of “Negev development.” Historical clues indicate that Germany secretly funded Israel’s nuclear program and raise the questions about how much Dimona cost, who really paid for it, and what …