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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Special to The Jewish News B y now, it has been con- firmed that Israel's newsleaking nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, was enticed from Great Britain to the south of France by a chubby but at- tractive blond named Cindy, who was employed by the Mossad. Vanunu was then lured onto a yacht, which was intercepted in international waters by a Mossad cl vessel, and brought back to Israel to stand trial. But Israel's destructive silence about its legitimate law enforcement activities has done more than create confusion and embar- rassment. It has now become clear that in Israel, it is legal- ly possible to disappear without a trace. Prior to beginning work at the Dimona reactor in 1977 as a low-level technician, Vanunu signed special securi- ty agreements pursuant to the Official Secrets Act. Once Vanunu gathered photographs of the nuclear facility and agreed to peddle them to the Sunday Times of London, he committed a variety of high security crimes. This report- edly brought him under the purview of Mossad, Israel's secret service. Under Israeli law, explains Hebrew University criminal law professor Dr. Mordechai Kremnitzer, "Israeli security agents possess an extra- territorial power that has nothing to do with extradi- tion. If an Israeli citizen — any citizen — has committed offenses against the vital in- terests of the state, say, hi- jacking an Israeli plane, and we can lay our hands on him, he can be brought back to Israel for criminal trial." Normally, such an extra- territorial act without the benefit of extradition papers might be considered illegal. "But not when it is done by official agents, performing under orders," says Dr. Krem- nitzer. "Under this doctrine, kidnapping would be covered [under Israeli law]." Once taken into custody, the defendant's right to a lawyer and trial can be substantially delayed. Two relevant arrest provisions apply. The first is the Powers in Emergency Law [Arrests], originally a British Man- datory statute but revised in- to Israeli law in 1979. Under this act, Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, acting under reasonable cause, has the power to "order administra- tive detention for a period of time not to exceed six months, so long as the ac- cused is brought before a pre- siding judge of the district criminal court within 48 hours," explains Dr. Kremnitzer. The judge must be shown the evidence justifying the detention, but there is no re- quirement that the accused be presented with the evi- dence or represented by an at- torney. Administrative deten- tion without charge or trial can be renewed by a judge every six months. Actually, most democratic nations maintain such laws. In America, the laws permit- ting the concentration of Japanese during World War II were not repealed until the 1970's; a host of other sedi- tion and special incarceration statutes arising out of the World War II era remain on America's books. In Britain, internment laws during the 1970's permitted suspects in Northern Ireland to be ar- rested and detained without trial. Israel has until now applied "administrative detention laws" almost exclusively to Arab terrorists. But the Vanunu case has proved that such laws are applicable to Israeli citizens as well. The second possible arrest venue is the "state security" provisions of the ordinary penal code. Section 125 allows a suspect to be denied access to a judge and a lawyer for up to 15 days. Israeli officials have refused to indicate which law Vanunu was ar- rested under, but it has been learned that if Vanunu was arrested aboard a yacht in in- ternational waters, it was under penal code section 125. Regardless of which arrest provision is used, the arrest itself becomes a state secret. In other words, a suspect might not only disappear, few if anyone might discover that he was sitting in an Israeli jail — the very situation sur- rounding Vanunu's arrest. The rationale is that it might compromise state se- curity to acknowledge what covert actions a person was engaged in or where he was when he committed the of- fense, especially for a state such as Israel which has an