Nuclear whistleblower spends first free night in church

A bitter and unrepentant Mordechai Vanunu spent his first night of freedom in a Jerusalem church after serving an 18-year prison term for disclosing Israel’s nuclear secrets.

Vanunu flashed victory signs and briefly climbed on the gate of Shikma Prison in Ashkelon yesterday to wave to dozens of cheering anti-nuclear campaigners from abroad, and then left in a convoy for St George, an Anglican Church in Jerusalem. In the 1980s, Vanunu converted from Judaism to Christianity.