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On 3 June 2015, Minister [[Vidar Helgesen]] said Norway had asked Israel to abolish the restrictions against Vanunu leaving Israel for humanitarian considerations. [[Centre Party (Norway)|Centre Party]] foreign policy spokesman [[Liv Signe Navarsete|Navarsete]] stated, "I would urge the government to make a difference...it would attract international attention if Norway gave nuclear whistleblower asylum or emergency passport – despite the Israeli sanctions against him."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/06/06/free-vanunu-to-norway-international-intervention-required/|title=Free Vanunu to Norway: International Intervention Required|work=The Arab Daily News|date=6 June 2015|access-date=15 June 2015}}</ref>
In September 2015, Vanunu's eighth Petition to remove the restrictions against him was denied by Israel's High Court.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/08/04/vanunu-mordechais-september-high-court-and-a-kindle-book/|title=Vanunu Mordechai's September: High Court and a KINDLE Book - The Arab Daily News|work=The Arab Daily News|access-date=3 March 2017|archive-date=27 July 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727065009/http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/08/04/vanunu-mordechais-september-high-court-and-a-kindle-book/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On 12 August 2015, Vanunu and his wife applied for family reunification via the Norwegian embassy in Tel Aviv. Vanunu's exit to Norway must be accepted by Israel and his entry approved by Norway. Norway had previously said that they could only issue emergency passports to people who are already on Norwegian soil. However, his wife is a professor at the School of Theology in [[Oslo]], and thus fulfills the requirement that one must be able to provide for their spouse.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/08/16/interview-with-eileen-fleming-on-her-new-ebook|title=Interview with Eileen Fleming on her new ebook|work=The Arab Daily News|date=16 August 2015|access-date=3 March 2017}}</ref>
On 2 September 2015, Vanunu granted his first interview to Israeli media in a Channel 2 interview regarding the Mossad operative who trapped him in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/09/03/nuclear-whistle-blower-mordechai-vanunu-talks-mossad|title=Nuclear Whistle Blower Mordechai Vanunu Talks Mossad|work=The Arab Daily News|date=3 September 2015|access-date=5 September 2015|archive-date=11 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911070704/http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/09/03/nuclear-whistle-blower-mordechai-vanunu-talks-mossad/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On 23 December 2015, Vanunu wrote: "Freedom of speech and Freedom of movement. 2016 Freedom year" in an update to his 30 October 2015 statement regarding his 8th Supreme Court Appeal. On 30 October Vanunu wrote: "I had a court hearing on 26 October 2015. We appealed all the restrictions. I even spoke to the Judges. They gave to the police 90 days to end their investigation for the last arrest, after that they will decide."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/12/23/mordechai-vanunus-christmas-update-and-thirty-year-wait-for-freedom-from-israel|title=Mordechai Vanunu's Christmas Update and Thirty-year Wait for Freedom from Israel|date=23 December 2015|publisher=thearabdailynews.com|access-date=7 December 2016}}</ref>
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On 6 June that year, the High Court of Justice denied Vanunu's petition to renounce his Israeli citizenship. Vanunu said, "I want them to revoke my citizenship so that I can begin my life."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4239151,00.html|title=Court denies nuke spy Vanunu's petition to renounce cititzenship|work=ynetnews.com|date=6 June 2012|access-date=7 June 2012}}</ref>
Vanunu was arrested on 23 April 2015, but it was not reported until six days later, when his attorney Michael Sfard posted on his Facebook page, "Vanunu was in a bookstore near the American Colony Hotel in Jerusalem where he met two tourists and to the amazement of the store's customers, it was raided by seven border police...after hours of interrogation, Vanunu was released." Vanunu was arrested on suspicions he had violated the restriction against his speaking with foreigners for more than 30 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/04/29/comic-relief-in-the-saga-of-mordechai-vanunu|title=Comic Relief in the Saga of Mordechai Vanunu|work=The Arab Daily News|access-date=15 June 2015|archive-date=19 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150719132808/http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/04/29/comic-relief-in-the-saga-of-mordechai-vanunu/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On 25 September 2015, Vanunu reported "Sep. 10- Nine policemen come to my home with a search warrant and arrest warrant, they took all my digitale [sic] stuff, computers, [[iPhone]], memory stick, hard drive, camera, CDs, everything, with all the passwords to all my internet activity. They are still holding all these thing. Sep. 25- I am back on the Internet, after one-week house arrest, and 2 weeks no Internet, all this for giving a TV interview in Hebrew, more than a decade after completing an 18-year jail term."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thearabdailynews.com/2015/09/28/mordechai-vanunu-reports-and-the-thomas-merton-connection|title=Mordechai Vanunu Reports and the Thomas Merton Connection|work=The Arab Daily News|date=28 September 2015}}</ref>
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In September 2004, Vanunu received the [[LennonOno Grant for Peace]], a peace prize founded by artist and musician [[Yoko Ono]] in memory of [[John Lennon]], her late husband.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}
In December 2004, he was elected by the students of the [[University of Glasgow]] to serve for three years as [[Rector of the University of Glasgow|Rector]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4100119.stm|title=Vanunu elected university rector|date=16 December 2004|publisher=BBC}}</ref> On 22 April 2005, he was formally installed in the post but could not carry out any of its functions as he was still confined to Israel. ''[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]'' newspaper launched a campaign for his release.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1072&type=P|title=Biography of Mordechai Vanunu|website=Universitystory.gla.ac.uk|date=26 February 2013|access-date=4 March 2017|archive-date=4 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170304192950/http://www.universitystory.gla.ac.uk/biography/?id=WH1072&type=P|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In 2005 he received the Peace Prize of the Norwegian People (''Folkets fredspris'').<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peacepeople.com/2005/norwegian.html|title=Norwegian Peace Prize for Mordechai Vanunu|date=5 April 2005|publisher=The Peace People|access-date=26 February 2011|quote=Mordechai Vanunu has been awarded the Norwegian People's Peace Prize for 2005 for his treacherous action of betraying the people in Israel.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927055720/http://www.peacepeople.com/2005/norwegian.html|archive-date=27 September 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Previous recipients of this prize include [[Vytautas Landsbergis]] (1991), [[Alva Myrdal]] (1982), [[Mairead Maguire]] and [[Betty Williams (Nobel laureate)|Betty Williams]]. On 24 February 2010, Nobel Institute Director, Geir Lundestad, announced that for the second year in a row, Mordechai Vanunu had declined the honour of being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.{{citation needed|date=March 2017}}
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