The Foreign Ministry's director general, Dore Gold, on Thursday banned all Israeli diplomats in Israel and abroad from holding contacts with Israeli journalists, in the wake of a Haaretz report that Arab states would not seek a vote regarding Israel's nuclear arms at next month's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) meeting in Vienna.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a senior Foreign Ministry official told Haaretz late on Thursday that Gold became furious when he saw the report and convened an urgent meeting in his office.
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