* January 5 – Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is assassinated by an Israeli Shabak-planted, bomb-laden cell phone.

The Yahya Ayyash Units admit responsibility, and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat condemns the killings in a televised address.

** Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian terrorist ( b. 1966 )

** Yahya Ayyash, Palestinian bombmaker

At that time ( 1993 – 96 ) Hamas enjoyed rapidly rising popularity in the wake of their successful strategy of suicide bombings devised by Yahya Ayyash (" the Engineer ").

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A few months after the Rabin assassination, Hamas chief bombmaker Yahya Ayyash was assassinated in a targeted killing in which an explosive device was planted in his cellular phone.

The first of these took place shortly after the end of the 40 day mourning period for Ayyash and the cell that claimed responsibility called itself " Disciples of the martyr Yahya ' Ayyash ", stating it was a revenge attack for his assassination.

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* Yahya Ayyash ( 1966-1996 ), a member of Hamas ( a terrorist organization )

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In January 1996 Israel assassinated the chief bombmaker of Hamas, Yahya Ayyash.

* Yahya Ayyash

He then served as an assistant to Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades's top engineer, Yahya Ayyash.

Created in 1992, under the direction of Yahya Ayyash, the primary objective of the group was to build a coherent military organisation to support the goals of Hamas, which was at the time concerned with blocking the Oslo Accords negotiations.

Vialls cited the following example of how the Israelis used the technique of radio detonation: In the late 1980s, Israeli intelligence managed to obtain the cellular phone of Yahya Ayyash by fooling him into believing that his phone had a fault ; the phone was booby-trapped with explosives when he brought it in for repairs, then subsequently detonated by a signal sent over the Israeli-controlled mobile phone network when he answered it.

Abdul Rahman Yahya Al-Eryani () ( born 1908, died 14 March 1998 ) was the President of Yemen from 1967 to 1974.

Yahya, Pasha Ibrahim ( 1876 – 1951 ) () was an Egyptian political figure.

Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeiee () ( 1979-2006 ) was a al-Qaeda terrorist, sentenced to death in 2004 by a Yemeni court for his part in the 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg.

In a commentary of the hadith Sahih Muslim, entitled al-Minhaj, the medieval Islamic scholar Yahya ibn Sharaf al-Nawawi stated that " one of the collective duties of the community as a whole () is to lodge a valid protest, to solve problems of religion, to have knowledge of Divine Law, to command what is right and forbid wrong conduct ".

Abu Sahl ' Isa ibn Yahya al-Masihi al-Jurjani () was a Persian Christian physician, from Gorgan, east of the Caspian Sea, in Iran.

Abu Yahya Zakariya ' ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini () ( born 1203-died 1283 ), was a Persian physician, astronomer, geographer and proto-science fiction writer.

Yahya ibn Mahmud al-Wasiti () was a 13th-century Arab Islamic artist.

Al-Mundhir I ibn Yahya al-Tujibi () was the first Banu Tujibi local boss to rule the city of Zaragoza independent of control by the Caliphate of Córdoba.

Yahya ibn al-Mundhir al-Mudhaffar () was the second boss of the Banu Tujibi group.

Al-Mundhir II ibn Yahya ibn al-Mundhir Mu ' azz al-Dawlah () was the third local boss of the Banu Tujibi group.

* Led by President Yahya Jammeh, in office since 22 July 1994

APRC candidate and incumbent Yahya Jammeh won a third five-year term in presidential elections held on 22 September 2006, receiving 67. 3 % of the vote.

When the Palestinian National Council convened in Cairo on 3 February 1969, Yahya Hammuda stepped down from his chairmanship of the PLO.

General Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan Qizilbash, ( Urdu: آغا محمد یحیی خان قزلباش ; February 4, 1917 – August 10, 1980 ), was the senior Army Commander who was the third President of Pakistan, and the military dictator from 1969 until the dissolution of East-Pakistan, in December 16, 1971.

* February 2 – Adnan Oktar, a. k. a. Harun Yahya, Turkish Author

* February – Al-Fadl ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, Abbasid governor ( d. 808 )

Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din ( or Imam Yahya ) ( 18 June 1869 — 17 February 1948 ) became Imam of the Zaydis in 1904 and Imam of Yemen in 1918.

Imam Yahya was shot by an assassin on 17 February 1948.

In response, on February 11, 2002, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei became one of 17 suspected terrorists added by the FBI to the " Seeking Information " list.

Fawaz Yahya al-Rabeei remained listed among the eleven names still being sought on February 14, 2002.

Mohammad Yahya Maroofi ( or Maroufi ) ( born March 5, 1939 in Kabul, originally his family is from Kandahar, Afghanistan ) was nominated on February 2, 2002, as Special adviser to the Afghan president Hamid Karzai, President of the Interim Government of Afghanistan.

Pirzada and Tikka Khan ) who met with Pakistani President Yahya Khan on 20 February 1971 to plan " Operation Searchlight "; he was appointed Chief of National Security in December, 1971 ( after Pakistan's defeat at combined hands of Mukti Bahini and India ) by Pakistan's new Prime Minister, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto.

Soon after the assassination of Imam Yahya in February 1948 plotted by Sayyid Abdullah al-Wazir, al-Badr arrived in Sana ' a, the capital, but apparently only gave tacit support to the new regime.

On February 28, 1971, Yahya Khan, the President of Pakistan, under the pressure of PPP of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, postponed the national assembly meeting scheduled for March.