Back in 2010, I reported that Israel had arrested an unidentified individual, and imprisoned him in total secrecy in an Israeli jail. The cell he occupied had once housed Yigal Amir. Even his jailers didn’t know who he was. His jailers apparently did a lousy job of monitoring Prisoner X, as he was called and […]
Daily Telegraph Breaks Case of Mr. X
A week ago or so I wrote about a story in Yediot Achronot reporting on the sad fate of Mr. X in Israel’s Ayalon prison. I broke the news that Yediot had disappeared its story after a gag order was imposed by the Shin Bet. An Israeli source of mine explained through an Israeli prison […]
Israeli Human Rights NGO Demands Accounting of Mr. X
A few days ago I reported about the sad fate of a prisoner in the Ayalon jail, kept in solitary confinement with no contact with anyone outside or inside the prison (except presumably his interrogators). The story was originally reported by Ynet. The article was then “disappeared” from the site by gag order. Besides this […]
Israel’s Mysterious Mr. X, Prisoner With No Name is Alleged ‘Terrorist’
Yesterday, I reported that Yediot Achronot published a story about an Israeli prisoner who, according to informants in the prison service, had no name, no identity, no contact with the outside world or fellow prisoners. He seemed truly to be a disappeared person in the midst of a country that likes to think of itself […]
