Nuclear whistle-blower Vanunu requests revocation of citizenship

Haaretz 7 May -- Vanunu spent 18 years in prison for revealing state nuclear secrets to London-based newspaper, The Sunday Times, in 1986. He made his request in light of a new Citizenship Revocation Law, passed by the Knesset on March 28, 2011. According to this law, those convicted of treason lose their right to Israeli citizenship. "After the treatment and 'care' which I got from this country and its citizens, I cannot feel myself a wanted citizen here," the letter says. "I have no interest in Israeli citizenship, I don’t want to go on living here."
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