Foxbats Over Dimona, by Isabella Ginor and Gideon Remez, has won the $15,000 silver medal in the inaugural annual book prize awarded by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
Reviewing the book for the JC, Ahron Bregman wrote that it "reveals a compellingly dramatic, if controversial, Cold War aspect of the Six-Day War". The controversy, as summarised in the report by the WINEP judges, Professors Bernard Lewis, Michael Mandelbaum and Washington Post columnist Jim Hoagland, is that Soviet actions at the time generally regarded "as inept or inexplicable are set out by the authors as part of a deliberate plan" for a "Soviet attack on Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona".