The website (www.iaec.gov.il) features a number of long-distance photos of the country's two nuclear plants, Dimona and Nahal Sorek, with brightly coloured flowers in the foreground.

The commission is one of the most top secret of all state institutions and comes under the control of the prime minister's office and the defense ministry.

The site contains details of employment opportunities and ongoing research work but has no photos or details of any work in the military field.

Israel has never publicly acknowledged that it maintains a nuclear arsenal but foreign experts say it has used its reactor at Dimona, in the southern Negev desert, to produce between 100 and 200 nuclear warheads.

Israel's spy agency Mossad, another agency not known for its love of the spotlight, launched a web site back in May to recruit engineers and technicians.

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