Mordechai Vanunu, Israel's nuclear whistleblower, was jailed in 1986 for publishing photographs of Israel's nuclear bomb factory at Dimona.
Vanunu has spent 17 years in jail, 11 of which were in a minute solitary confinement cell - and he has just had his appeal for parole denied.
He will stay in jail until 2004, when his term is expected to end.
In 1986 an Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was offering proof of what the world had long suspected. His revelations confirmed that Israel was building advanced nuclear weapons.
After the Sunday Times published this scoop, Vanunu was lured to Italy and kidnapped by Mossad agents and illegally smuggled back to Israel.
He was tried in secret and convicted of treason and spying.
