SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Mordechai Vanunu

1954 - Today

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Mordechai Vanunu (Hebrew: מרדכי ואנונו; born 14 October 1954), also known as John Crossman, is an Israeli former nuclear technician and peace activist who, citing his opposition to weapons of mass destruction, revealed details of Israel's nuclear weapons program to the British press in 1986. He was subsequently lured to Italy by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad, where he was drugged and abducted. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mordechai Vanunu has received more than 1,349,536 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Mordechai Vanunu is the 162nd most popular social activist (up from 177th in 2019), the 26th most popular biography from Morocco (up from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Moroccan Social Activist.

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  • 65.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Mordechai Vanunu ranks 162 out of 840. Before him are Sergey Nechayev, Ales Bialiatski, Yiannis Ritsos, Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya, Rudi Dutschke, and Alexander Pechersky. After him are Maria Spiridonova, Frederick Douglass, Rigoberta Menchú, Otoya Yamaguchi, René Just Haüy, and Kittur Chennamma.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Mordechai Vanunu ranks 50. Before him are Ron Howard, Rene Russo, Andrej Babiš, Prayut Chan-o-cha, Dennis Quaid, and Abdul Rashid Dostum. After him are Uli Stielike, Marian Gold, Michael Dudikoff, Lee Child, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and Sezen Aksu.

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In Morocco

Among people born in Morocco, Mordechai Vanunu ranks 26 out of 264. Before him are Zeno of Verona (300), Tahar Ben Jelloun (1944), Hassan I of Morocco (1836), Jean-Luc Mélenchon (1951), Ahmad al-Badawi (1199), and Al-Rashid of Morocco (1631). After him are Frida Boccara (1940), Daniel Pennac (1944), Mehdi Ben Barka (1920), Abdelaziz of Morocco (1878), Larbi Benbarek (1914), and Abd al-Rahman of Morocco (1779).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Morocco

Among social activists born in Morocco, Mordechai Vanunu ranks 1. After him are Abdallah ibn Yasin (null), Aminatou Haidar (1966), and Latifa Ibn Ziaten (1960).

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