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Topic: Mahmoud al-Mabhouh

February 20, 2013
5:45 pm

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

Being away from his growing family ‘may have been factor in Zygier’s suicide’

Australian reporter who spoke several times with Mossad man says Zygier told him nothing that could have justified his arrest

By David Horovitz

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
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 14, 2013
9:35 pm

CCTV footage released by the Dubai police regarding the reported Mabhouh assassination. (Screenshot via YouTube)

Israeli TV: Zygier had nothing to do with Mabhouh affair

Dubai police chief says Emirates did not turn reported Mossad spy; Melbourne-born agent was arrested a few days after he denied to an Australian reporter that he was spying for Israel

By Ilan Ben Zion and Times of Israel staff

February 14, 2013
4:25 pm

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

Zygier was about to reveal Mossad secrets to Australia, report claims

Australian security officials say that local intelligence services or the media may have been close to getting spy to talk

By Stuart Winer and Times of Israel staff

February 14, 2013
2:24 pm

Pictures released by Dubai in 2010 of alleged Mossad suspects in the killing of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (photo credit: Youtube screenshot)

Kuwaiti daily: Zygier betrayed Mossad to Dubai, was kidnapped by Israel

Al-Jarida claims that ‘Prisoner X’ divulged information on the 2010 assassination of Hamas weapons importer Mabhouh

By Elhanan Miller

February 14, 2013
1:29 am

Ben Zygier (photo credit: YouTube screenshot)

Zygier ‘ran Mossad front company selling electronics to Iran’

Alleged Australian-Israeli agent, who reportedly killed himself in jail here in 2010, said to have been held in solitary on suspicion of treason

By Greg Tepper and Ilan Ben Zion

February 13, 2013
10:38 pm

Illustrative picture of Australian passport and Israeli passports (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Exposure of alleged agent could have ‘dramatic implications’ for Mossad

Channel 10: Iran and Syria will now be checking through their records, working out when Ben Zygier entered, who accompanied him, and who he met with

By Times of Israel staff

February 13, 2013
5:23 pm

Ben Zygier (photo credit: Screenshot ABC TV via YouTube)

‘Aussie authorities suspected Prisoner X was Israeli spy’

Before his death in prison, Ben Zygier reportedly visited Iran, Syria and Lebanon; was grilled over alleged connection to top Hamas operative’s killing

By Aaron Kalman

August 28, 2012
8:59 am

Minister of Environmental Protection Gilad Erdan (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90/File)

Environment minister may miss climate change conference because of security dispute

Qatar refuses to let Gilad Erdan attend UN gathering with Israeli security detail, Shin Bet won’t let him go without

By Aaron Kalman

June 28, 2012
12:18 am

Palestinians hold up Hamas flags (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Hamas suspect that Mossad is behind assassination of Damascus operative

Killed man, Kamal Ranaja, said to be one of the deputies of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, who died in 2010

By Times of Israel staff

May 21, 2012
9:12 am

Refaeli during a shoot in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

Refaeli is world’s hottest woman

Israeli supermodel and actress takes top spot in Maxim list

By Joshua Davidovich

May 20, 2012
5:02 pm

Israeli model Bar Refaeli plays a Mossad seductress with actor Tomer Sisley on a set of a film made about the assassination of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh (AP/Dan Balilty)

Dubai flick rankles terrorist’s family

Kin of assassinated Hamas mastermind call flick starring Israeli supermodel Bar Rafaeli a distortion

May 7, 2012
9:02 pm

The Israeli top model Bar Refaeli posing for a Woodstock-inspired fashion campaign in 2009 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Israeli spy flick raises the Bar

‘I would love to be in the Mossad, and maybe I am,’ supermodel Refaeli says. ‘Who knows? I think that being a famous model is the best cover’

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