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'{{Short description|Prison in Ramla, Israel}} {{infobox prison|name=Ayalon Prison<br />{{Script/Hebrew|בית סוהר איילון}}|pushpin_map=Israel|pushpin_label=Ayalon Prison|opened=1950|city=[[Ramla]]|country={{flag|Israel}}|image=Ayalon Prison.jpg|caption=View of a guard tower at the prison, 2010|image_size=250px|classification=Maximum|pushpin_map_caption=Location within Israel|managed_by=[[Israel Prison Service]]|former_name=Ramla Prison|pushpin_map_alt=Map showing the location of Ayalon Prison within the State of Israel|capacity=625 cells (15 wings)|status=Operational}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2021}} {{Use Oxford spelling|date=November 2021}} '''Ayalon Prison''' ({{Lang-he|בית סוהר איילון}}), formerly known as '''Ramla Prison''', is a maximum-security [[prison]] located in [[Ramla]], [[Israel]]. It is managed by the [[Israel Prison Service]]. The prison was opened in 1950, and was built in the style of the [[Tegart fort]]s from the [[Mandatory Palestine|British Mandate]] era. It is one of four high-security criminal prisons operated by the Israel Prison Service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files/15/580/088/b15/15088580.b15.htm |title=פסק-דין בתיק רע"ב 8858/15 |website=elyon1.court.gov.il |access-date=22 May 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160804120322/http://elyon1.court.gov.il/files/15/580/088/b15/15088580.b15.htm |archive-date=4 August 2016 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Ayalon Prison has 625 cells divided into 15 wings, including an isolation wing for prisoners in [[solitary confinement]]. It has an educational center with six classrooms for [[Education in Israel|primary education]] and classes for [[English language|English]], [[computer]]s and [[art]]. The prison also has facilities for [[meditation]], [[sport]]s, [[parenting]], [[drug rehabilitation]] in addition to eight factories which employ inmates<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.haaretz.co.il/.premium-MAGAZINE-1.2853435|title = הקשר בין אסירים בכלא איילון לחנויות יוקרה בכיכר המדינה| newspaper=הארץ }}</ref> and a radio station operated by inmates selected and trained to broadcast rehabilitative and educational content to all other prisons in Israel. ==Notable inmates== * [[Adolf Eichmann]], a [[Nazi Germany|Nazi German]] official and major organizer of the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]] during [[World War II]]; executed in 1962 following his capture by [[Mossad]] agents in [[Argentina]]. He is one of only two people to be executed in Israel since its independence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tv7israelnews.com/israel-readies-new-death-penalty-law/ |title=Israel readies new death penalty law |publisher=Tv7 Israel News |date=2023-03-03}}</ref> * [[John Demjanjuk]], a [[Trawniki men|Ukrainian guard at Nazi death camps]] during the Holocaust; extradited from the [[United States]] to [[Israel]] in 1986 and imprisoned at Ayalon until 1993.<ref>{{cite news|author=Der Spiegel |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13517583.html |title=DER SPIEGEL 11/1986 - Absolute Gerechtigkeit |newspaper=Der Spiegel |publisher=Spiegel.de |date= 9 March 1986|accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref> * [[Yigal Amir]], an Israeli right-wing ultranationalist who [[Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin|assassinated]] the fifth [[Prime Minister of Israel]], [[Yitzhak Rabin]], in 1995. * [[Death of Ben Zygier|Ben Zygier]] (or [[Prisoner X]]), an [[History of the Jews in Australia|Australian-Israeli]] veteran of the [[Israel Defense Forces]] and alleged Mossad agent; imprisoned for unspecified crimes and died by suicide while in custody in December 2010.<ref>{{cite web|author=Politik |url=http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/ben-zygier-mossad-agent-soll-haeftling-x-gewesen-sein-a-882982.html |title=Ben Zygier: Mossad-Agent soll Häftling X gewesen sein - SPIEGEL ONLINE |publisher=Spiegel.de |date=2010-06-24 |accessdate=2013-06-19}}</ref> * [[Yishai Schlissel]], stabbed marchers at multiple [[Jerusalem gay pride parade|Jerusalem pride parades]] in 2005 and 2015. == References == {{commons category|Ayalon Prison}} {{reflist}} {{coord|31.935083|N|34.881270|E|name=Ayalon Prison|display=title}} [[Category:Prisons in Israel]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Ramla]] [[Category:Buildings and structures in Central District (Israel)]] [[Category:Execution sites]] {{prison-stub}} {{Israel-struct-stub}}'