The Israeli financial paper Globes is reporting (in Hebrew, req. reg.) that the BBC has rented a luxury apartment in Jaffa for Mordechai Vanunu, the Israeli atomic spy who is due to be released from prison today. The rent: $4,750 per month. Paid for by British TV viewers.
Globes states:
At this point, it’s not clear what BBC is receiving in return for the payment of Vanunu’s apartment, but one could assume that BBC will receive a TV interview with him.
Stay tuned.
UPDATE: Globes is now reporting (at same link) that BBC intended to rent the place for Vanunu, but that Vanunu turned them down after the story hit the press. See BBC’s denial of the whole thing in comments below.
