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Ben Gvir says he will propose law allowing death penalty for terrorists
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National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks to onlookers at the scene of a terror attack in Jerusalem's Neve Yaakov neighborhood, on January 27, 2023. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir says after a security cabinet meeting that he will soon propose a law allowing for the death penalty against terrorists.
“I hope we will pass it with a big majority,” he says in a statement.
He says the security cabinet’s newly announced measures in response to terrorism are “important” but that he wants “a lot more and I will continue and will strive for more and more decisions for combating terror.”
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