The Israeli government has agreed to pay the family of Australia-born lawyer Ben Zygier nearly $1.2 million in compensation after the so-called Prisoner X hanged himself in a prison near Tel Aviv in late 2010.
Zygier’s suicide, which made headlines after the Australian Broadcasting Corp. publicly disclosed his identity for the first time earlier this year, could have resulted in embarrassing disclosures for the Israeli government in a court case brought by Zygier’s family, according to a report by Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, Haaretz.
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