Wasn't the original facility set up with French support?

yes, the core was bought by israel. but were do they get the uranium and Plutonium for it?

They stockpiled iot from various places..the French in the 50s and early sixties, A front company in the US fr a little while, and the South Africans during the 70s and 80s

It's not exactly the kind of question that is going to get answered.

Israel's nuclear arsenal is somethin that doesn't get much press, and for good reason. They don't want it talked about much, the less other people know, they better the Israelis feel.

A guess (which I cannot qualtify in any way) is that they traded nuke technology with South Africa for uranium.

Initially, but without giving too much away, AFAIK they are a bit more self sufficient now.

I live in israel and one of the things that most of the people belive in is the "SAMSON" project. From what i know from the press,etc.., the project main goal is "the second strike". That means that if the I.D.F will lose a war then isrel will send her second strike, all of her nukes to enemy(Arabs countries) countries.

Been rumored for years that the Nuke test South Africa conducted in the mid-1980s was actually a joint South African/Israeli bomb...

Really?,thanks i didn't know that. that can explain why does some african countries loves us and the other,emmmmmmmm ho well they hate us.