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Yahya Ayyash

1966 - 1996

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Yahya Abd-al-Latif Ayyash (Arabic: يحيى عياش, romanized: Yaḥyā ʿAyyāš, pronounced [jaħjaː ʕajːaʃ]; 6 March 1966 – 5 January 1996) 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" (Arabic: المهندس, romanized: al-Muhandis). Ayyash is credited with advancing the technique of suicide bombings against Israel by Palestinian militant groups. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yahya Ayyash has received more than 679,531 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Yahya Ayyash is the 147th most popular engineer (up from 302nd in 2019).

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Yahya Ayyash ranks 147 out of 389. Before him are Gabriel Voisin, Franz Reuleaux, Li Kui, Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Kerim Kerimov, and Alec Issigonis. After him are Joseph Strauss, Georgy Babakin, William Playfair, Mikhail Yangel, Alexei Tupolev, and Mstislav Keldysh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Yahya Ayyash ranks 77. Before him are Gordon Ramsay, Max Richter, Lisa Edelstein, Helle Thorning-Schmidt, Bujar Nishani, and Krasimir Balakov. After him are Mika Salo, Olivier Martinez, Fernando Colunga, Alex Zanardi, Hill Harper, and Cynthia Nixon. Among people deceased in 1996, Yahya Ayyash ranks 106. Before him are Leo Joseph Suenens, Ai Qing, Tiny Tim, Shams Pahlavi, Petro Shelest, and Hussein Kamel al-Majid. After him are Juan Hohberg, Antonín Mrkos, J. R. Jayewardene, Alejandro Agustín Lanusse, Koichi Oita, and Brunó Ferenc Straub.

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