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Topic: Ben Zygier

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February 17, 2013
12:25 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, February 10 (photo by: Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)

Netanyahu on Zygier affair: Let the security forces do their jobs

MK Uri Ariel calls for independent probe of Mossad case that ended in suicide; Labor’s Cabel says his past inquiry into matter was discouraged by intelligence officials

By Stuart Winer

February 17, 2013
9:00 am

Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr speaks during a news conference at the annual Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012, in Perth, Australia. (photo credit: AP/Matt Rourke)

Canberra seeks answers from Israel on Zygier affair

Foreign Minister Bob Carr asks Jerusalem to aid in investigation into arrest and death of Australian national

February 17, 2013
3:44 am

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd (photo credit: CC BY Australian Civil-Military Centre, Flickr)

Former Aussie PM: Get to the bottom of Zygier case

From the Web The Australian: Canberra must be ‘robust’ with Israel in its investigation of the ‘Prisoner X’ affair

February 17, 2013
1:36 am

Ben Zygier at his wedding (photo credit: screen capture Channel 10)

Zygier ‘did not commit treason,’ was arrested because he ‘might’ have leaked info

Mossad man was not a senior agent and did not do anything ‘iniquitous,’ writes leading Israeli security analyst, blaming Australian intelligence for putting media on his trail

By Times of Israel staff

February 16, 2013
11:36 pm

Ben Zygier's Australian passport (photo credit: screen capture Channel 10)

Justice Ministry mulls releasing ‘Prisoner X’ dossier

After gag order was partially lifted on Wednesday, details of Zygier’s death in prison may be released in full

By Yifa Yaakov

February 16, 2013
9:45 pm

Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (photo credit: Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90)

Ya’alon: Israel’s ‘unique’ situation made ‘Prisoner X’ incarceration necessary

Vice premier says ‘extreme measures’ not only justified in Zygier case, but constitute ‘pikuach nefesh’ — the Jewish imperative to save lives

By Yifa Yaakov

February 16, 2013
6:42 am

Ben Zygier. (Screenshot ABC TV via Youtube)

Photo analysis casts doubt on Zygier’s ‘hit squad’ link

From the web Ynet: Forensic report finds no correlation between features of reported Mossad agent and suspect in the 2010 killing of a Hamas weapons dealer in Dubai

February 15, 2013
10:03 pm

A screenshot from the Australian television program on Zygier. (Screenshot: ABC news via YouTube)

The two glaring questions at the heart of the Zygier affair

What was the alleged crime that justified the Mossad agent’s arrest and incarceration in solitary confinement, and how did he manage to kill himself in Israel’s most secure jail cell?

By Mitch Ginsburg

February 15, 2013
8:38 pm

Israel denies it agreed to pay Zygier’s family millions

Senior Israeli source tells Australian paper that Canberra government was deeply familiar with Mossad agent’s activity

By Ron Friedman and Michal Shmulovich

February 15, 2013
5:00 pm

Tombstone of Ben Zygier at Chevra Kadisha Jewish Cemetery in Melbourne, Australia (photo credit: AP/Andrew Brownbill)

Prisoner X was from my shtetl

From the web Tablet: Melbourne’s Jewish community confronts the mysterious death of one of its own, Ben Zygier, in an Israeli prison

February 15, 2013
2:08 pm

A man reading a news report about the reported Mabhouh assassination in 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

Prisoner why

The Ben Zygier spy case continues to fascinate the press, with questions abounding of why he went to jail and whether it needed to be kept a secret

By Joshua Davidovich

February 15, 2013
10:15 am

Israel reportedly to pay Zygier’s family millions

Compensation deal said struck 6 weeks ago, after investigation concluded Australian-born agent committed suicide in jail; ex-Mossad official says there may be other Prisoner X’s