Ben Ammi and more of his followers arrived in the ensuing months, settling in Dimona.
Ben-Gurion moved to the kibbutz due to his vision of cultivating the arid Negev desert and building up its surrounding towns such as Yeruham and Dimona.
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The 2009 conference featured special presentations from John Bolton, Former United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations; Gérard Prunier, Senior Research Fellow at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris; and Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, the authors of the award-winning book Foxbats Over Dimona: The Soviets' Nuclear Gamble in the Six-Day War.
Designed by Wolf Hoffmann based on his Dimona motor-glider, it was a conventional, low-wing monoplane with side-by-side seating for two and tricycle undercarriage.
Interviews include Avner Cohen (author of the book "Israel and the Bomb", 1999), Gideon Remez, Isabella Ginor (author of the book "Foxbats over Dimona"), journalist Peter Hounam, Martin van Creveld, Avi Primor.