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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Nuclear Scientists & Programs	Person Nuclear Israel	Pinhas Sapir was an Israeli politician who, along with Levi Eshkol, dominated the Israeli budget process for more than fifteen years.	1906-10-15	1975-08-12	Suwałki, Poland

Pinhas Sapir was an Israeli politician who, along with Levi Eshkol, dominated the Israeli budget process for more than fifteen years. He was a perennial critic of Israel's nuclear program, viewing the Egyptian arms buildup as the most compelling argument against investing money at Dimona. Sapir saw a nuclear-armed Israel as financial madness and believed it would only lead to conflicts with the United States and a lessened flow of American contributions.¹

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1. Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy. Random House, 1991. Chapter 5, 9. ↩︎