# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ben-zygier
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:33:39.000Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ben-zygier"
name: "Ben Zygier"
slug: "ben-zygier"
description: "Ben Zygier was an Australian-Israeli citizen who was a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and allegedly an agent of Mossad. He was imprisoned in Ayalon Prison, Ramla, Israel and died in custody in 2010, reportedly by hanging himself in a maximum-security cell designed to be suicide-proof. Prisoner X, Mr. X and Mister X were placeholder names for him while he was being held in strict secrecy for unspecified crimes."
tagline: "Died in 2010 in Israel"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/40/Ben_Zygier_-_01.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Australia"
  isoCode: "AU"
birthDate: "1976-12-09"
deathDate: "2010-12-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.76
  momentum:             6.506024096385543
  historical:           6.546509333333335
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%91%D0%B5%D0%BD"
    title: "Зайгер, Бен"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%A4ftling_X"
    title: "Häftling X"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Zygier"
    title: "Ben Zygier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Zygier"
    title: "Ben Zygier"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%9F_%D7%96%D7%99%D7%92%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8"
    title: "בן זיגייר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prigioniero_X"
    title: "Prigioniero X"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fange_X"
    title: "Fange X"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4501395"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump