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Mosab Hassan Yousef

Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)
June 11, 2026, 10:00 pm
Hamas co-founder in West Bank released without charge after 2.5 years in Israeli jail
Hassan Yousef was put in administrative detention for latest time days after Oct. 7; his eldest son was a Shin Bet informant for 10 years, wrote about experience
By Nurit Yohanan and AFP
Mosab Hassan Yousef, Florida, December 2018 (Courtesy)
April 24, 2024, 5:32 am
‘Son of Hamas’ Mosab Hassan Yousef: ‘If we finish Rafah, we finish Hamas’
Back in the public sphere after Oct. 7, the former terror scion turned undercover Shin Bet agent laments how the Islamist group his father co-founded is tolerated in the West
By Natan Galula
'Son of Hamas' Mosab Hassan Yousef during an interview with British television journalist Piers Morgan, October 26, 2023. (YouTube screenshot)
October 29, 2023, 12:43 am
‘Son of Hamas’ in interview: Terrorists brought wrath of God with October 7 attack
In passionate conversation with UK TV journalist Piers Morgan, Mosab Hassan Yousef, the disowned son of Hamas co-founder, advocates for war to topple bloody regime
By ToI Staff
Mosab Hassan Yousef
October 27, 2020, 10:28 pm
Mosab Hassan Yousef
A Palestinian dreams of Isaac and Ishmael
In the eternal battle between fear and hope, writes the ‘Son of Hamas,’ the Abraham Accords offer a chance to break free from irreconcilable dogmas and imagine what is possible
Hassan Yousef speaks to the media after his release from an Israeli prison, in the West Bank city of Ramallah on January 19, 2014. (Majdi Mohammad/AP)
July 23, 2020, 6:43 pm
Hamas West Bank leader said freed from detention after 16 months
Hassan Yousef, co-founder of terror group and father to ‘Son of Hamas,’ said released without trial after arrest last year at Ramallah home
By AFP
Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder Hassan Yousef, talks to Israeli TV after leaving the terror group and accusing it off corruption (Screencapture, July 3, 2019, Channel 12)
July 4, 2019, 6:47 am
Second ‘son of Hamas’ leaves terror group, exposing corruption, Turkish spy ring
Suheib Yousef, son of Hamas co-founder and brother of ‘Green Prince’ who secretly worked for Shin Bet, opens up to Israeli TV after also fleeing group; urges his father to resign
By ToI Staff
Mosab Hassan Yousef addresses an American Friends of Magen David Adom event in Florida, December 2018. (Courtesy)
December 17, 2018, 2:46 pm
‘Just trying to save lives’: 5 surreal days in Florida with the ‘Son of Hamas’
A staggering series of events took Mosab Hassan Yousef from the home of the terror group’s co-founder, to a decade as a Shin Bet agent, to speaking on behalf of Magen David Adom
By David Horovitz
PA President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the Palestinian leadership at the opening of a two-day conference in the West Bank city of Ramallah to discuss the future of the Palestinian Authority, on March 4, 2015. (Photo credit: AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)
August 8, 2015, 4:29 pm
Is Abbas about to quit? Israel had better pray he isn’t
Rumors abound that the PA chief could step down next month. Many hardliners might say, ‘Who needs him anyway?’ The answer: Israel does
By Avi Issacharoff
Hamas official Hassan Yousef at his office in Ramallah, July 30, 2015. (Elhanan Miller/Times of Israel)
July 31, 2015, 2:04 pm
A day before arson attack, Hamas leader said he sought calm
His pro-Israel son, the Green Prince, has warned against ceasefires with Hamas, but Sheikh Hassan Yousef said long-term truce was possible if Israel recognized ‘Palestinian rights’
By Elhanan Miller
John Calvin, a gay, Christian Palestinian asylum seeker, who currently resides in Canada, says he fears for his life after he was issued a deportation order on December 31, 2014. (Photo credit: CTV News Edmonton screen shot)
January 6, 2015, 4:55 am
‘Israeli kindness changed my life,’ says Hamas escapee in Canada
Gay, Christian-convert son of a Palestinian militant family tells Times of Israel he found compassion where he least expected it, and most needed it
By Elhanan Miller
Mosab Hassan Yousef in Israel (photo credit: AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
November 25, 2014, 12:30 pm
Destroy Hamas in Gaza now, urges the ‘Green Prince’
Israel’s ceasefire policy with Hamas is fundamentally mistaken, says the son of the Islamist group’s West Bank chief. It simply gives Hamas time to rearm, when it can and must be urgently uprooted
By Avi Issacharoff
Mosab Hassan Yousef during an interview with CNN, July 2014. (screen capture: YouTube/Yaron Haklai)
July 27, 2014, 11:38 pm
Hamas defector slams ‘death worship’
‘Green Prince’ Mosab Hassan Yousef says terror organization’s goal is an Islamic state built on the rubble of other civilizations
By Stuart Winer
Mosab Hassan Yousef, son of Hamas leader Hassan Yousef. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 16, 2014, 10:56 am
The ‘Son of Hamas’ returns to Tel Aviv
Avi Issacharoff meets up again with Mosab Hassan Yousef, the ‘Green Prince’ whose life-saving role as an Israeli agent he first uncovered
By Avi Issacharoff
Palestinian supporters of Hamas mark the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin in Gaza City, on March 23, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Mahmud Hams)
March 28, 2014, 11:15 am
After dark days, Hamas is making a comeback
On 10th anniversary of founder’s assassination, the Islamist movement’s recently freed West Bank leader is feisty and confident in an interview
By Avi Issacharoff
'The Green Prince' (photo credit: Sundance Institute and Nadav Schirman)
January 26, 2014, 8:26 pm
‘The Green Prince’ snags Sundance award
Israeli documentary on Hamas founder’s son who spied for Jewish state for over a decade garners critical acclaim
By Marissa Newman
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