---
tags:
  - Organization
  - Government
  - Israel
category: "Foreign Government"
summary: "Tahal is the Israeli government-owned water planning corporation that constructed the expertly concealed underground shelters for Israel's first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah, importing missile launch tubes marked as pipeline."
start: 1952
location: "Tel Aviv, Israel"
---
Tahal is the government-owned water planning corporation in [[Israel]]. It was responsible for building the expertly concealed shelters for [[Israel]]'s first nuclear missile field at Hirbat Zachariah. The smooth barrels through which the missiles would be launched were imported into the country marked as lengths of pipeline.[^1]

### Footnotes

[^1]: Hersh, Seymour M. *The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy*. Random House, 1991. Chapter 13.