Israeli nuclear weapons? What Israeli nuclear weapons?

""Hagel was challenged at one point during a question-and-answer session by a former Iranian nuclear negotiator over why his address failed to mention Israel's possession of nuclear weapons. Hossein Mousavian, who is now a scholar at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, told Hagel he "didn't mention a single word about the major threat of nuclear bombs in the region, which is Israel." Hagel replied by noting that Iran is in violation of "many United Nations resolutions." Israel is widely understood to possess nuclear weapons but declines to confirm it.""