Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is backing the death penalty for terrorists in “extreme cases.”
He says the security cabinet will hold a serious discussion about the issue after the preliminary reading on Wednesday, and before the first reading of the bill by the Yisrael Beytenu party.
Netanyahu says he visited the Salomon family in the West Bank settlement of Halamish after a Palestinian terrorist stabbed to death three members of their family in July 2017.
He said he was “dismayed” when the relatives “who survived the terrible attack, told me how the terrorist held the knife and slaughtered and laughed.”
“And I said there are extreme cases, when people carry out terrible attacks where they don’t deserve to live,” Netanyahu added.
The security cabinet will address all the criticism of capital punishment by Israel’s security establishment in the high-level security cabinet, said Netanyahu.
He spoke ahead of the preliminary reading of the death penalty for terrorists bill.
— Marissa Newman
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