{"id":394144,"date":"2025-11-21T07:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394144\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T07:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T07:34:12","slug":"shin-bet-chief-backs-death-penalty-for-terrorists-ministers-say-israelis-spying-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/394144\/","title":{"rendered":"Shin Bet chief backs death penalty for terrorists; ministers say Israelis spying for"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shin Bet Director David Zini told ministers the proposed law would be \u201ca highly deterrent tool.\u201d When asked whether it might prompt terrorists to kidnap Israelis, he said kidnappings had occurred before and that \u201cthe law provides deterrence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shouting and physical confrontation among lawmakers during debate on death penalty<\/p>\n

(Video: Knesset Channel)<\/p>\n

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A representative for the IDF said IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir sees \u201cno obstacle\u201d to a death penalty law, though the army supports allowing judicial discretion rather than making the sentence mandatory. Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs said this question \u2014 mandatory versus discretionary sentencing \u2014 is the main point of contention.<\/p>\n

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir argued the sentence must be mandatory, saying he does not trust the attorney general or state prosecutors to request the death penalty. He called the bill \u201ca historic law that will bring deterrence, prevent further kidnappings and bring justice,\u201d citing the 2011 murder of the Fogel family in Itamar.<\/p>\n

Minister of Science and Technology Gila Gamliel noted that \u201cJewish civilians could also be executed.\u201d Ben-Gvir replied, \u201cAnyone who acts against the revival of the Jewish people.\u201d Smotrich added that a Jew working for Iran against Israel \u201ccould be executed.\u201d<\/p>\n

The discussion took place a week and a half after the Knesset approved the bill in a preliminary reading. Earlier in the day, a tense Knesset debate on the measure devolved into shouting and a brief physical confrontation among lawmakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shin Bet Director David Zini told ministers the proposed law would be \u201ca highly deterrent tool.\u201d When asked…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":394145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[99,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-394144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-israel","9":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115586535751883226","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}