# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yahya-ayyash
# Generated: 2026-08-13T17:25:27.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yahya-ayyash"
name: "Yahya Ayyash"
slug: "yahya-ayyash"
description: "Yahya Abd-al-Latif Ayyash was the chief bombmaker of Hamas and the leader of the West Bank battalion of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. In that capacity, he earned the nickname \"the Engineer\". Ayyash is credited with advancing the technique of suicide bombings against Israel by Palestinian militant groups. The bombings he orchestrated killed approximately 90 Israelis, many of them civilians. He was assassinated by the Shin Bet on January 5, 1996, through a booby-trapped mobile phone."
tagline: "Palestinian electrical and explosives engineer (1966-1996)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Yahya_Ayyash.jpg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1966-03-06"
deathDate: "1996-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9774827541325003
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump