Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman doubles down on his pledge to advance legislation to extend the death penalty for terrorists.
At the weekly Yisrael Beytenu faction meeting, with representatives of bereaved Israeli parents present, Liberman says the preliminary vote on the bill will take place on Wednesday.
Responding to criticism by the Shin Bet internal security chief on the proposal, Liberman says he respects Nadav Argaman, but disagrees.
“Unfortunately, there is no other way,” says Liberman.
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, on December 24, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
He also notes that Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death in “enlightened, liberal” Massachusetts in 2015.
There is no reason “we should not follow the lead of the best democracy in the world,” he adds.
Speaking at the faction meeting, Devorah Goren, whose son Danny was murdered in a 2015 West Bank terror attack, says the death penalty for terrorists is not meant to “punish,” but rather “to prevent the next murder.”
— Marissa Newman
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