Pini Badash, the head of the Omer Regional Council, told Makor Rishon last Friday that residents of Dimona will drive to Beersheba only after dark in five-car convoys for fear of highway robbery.
The planned closing of Israel's nuclear plant near Dimona this month, which was reported in Israeli media, sounded alarms in Washington, where officials feared it meant Israel was repositioning its own nuclear assets to safeguard them against a potential Iranian counterstrike.
