Defense minister starts drafting legislation to hold terrorists’ bodies

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman orders work to begin “without delay” on new legislation that will allow the State of Israel to hold the bodies of terrorists “for the purposes of negotiations to secure the release of prisoners and missing [soldiers],” his office says in a statement.

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