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category	tags	summary	born	died	location
Political Figure	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. ↩︎