Early and Educational Life
Vanunu was born in Marrakech, Morocco, to a Sephardi Jewish family; his parents were Orthodox Jews, and his father was a rabbi. In 1963, Vanunu's family emigrated to Israel under the Law of Return. Vanunu was nine years old at the time, and had four brothers and sisters. His parents had six more children in Israel. The family settled in Beersheba, where Vanunu studied in an ultra-Orthodox elementary school, and attended but did not finish a Bnei Akiva yeshiva high school. Vanunu was conscripted into the Israel Defense Forces in 1971, where he served as a sapper in the Combat Engineering Corps with the rank of First Sergeant. Vanunu was stationed on the Golan Heights, and saw action during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Vanunu was honorably discharged in 1974, and began studying physics at Tel Aviv University. After failing two exams at the end of his first year, he left the university.
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