Yair Netanyahu: Police, prosecutors tied to father’s trial deserve punishment ‘that is not prison’

Yair Netanyahu, the son of incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, causes an uproar with comments suggesting that police officials and prosecutors involved in the corruption charges against his father deserve the death penalty.

In an interview to Galey Israel radio on Friday, the junior Netanyahu says that those law enforcement officials involved in his father’s case are guilty of “treason” for ousting Netanyahu from office and “subverting the will of the people.”

“Everyone is welcome to look up the laws of the State of Israel and see the punishment for treason: it’s not prison,” the younger Netanyahu adds.

Capital punishment in Israel can only be imposed for charges of treason, genocide and crimes against humanity, and has only been imposed once in the history of the State of Israel: against Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann in 1962.