death penalty

Trump calls on Iran to free 8 women sentenced to death

US President says he would 'greatly appreciate the release' of 8 women who reportedly face hanging in Iran.

Erdogan:

'Israel’s death penalty bill is worse than Hitler'

Turkish President harshly condemns Israel’s newly approved Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill, comparing it to Hitler’s policies against Jews and labeling it a worse form of apartheid.

Daniel Greenfield:

The God-honest truth about Israel’s Death Penalty Bill

Repeat killers, hostage deals, and media spin led Israelis to a breaking point. Opinion.

Death penalty law

Widespread condemnation by Muslim countries

8 Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, issue condemnation of Israel's law on the death penalty for terrorists. Afghanistan’s Taliban government also criticized the legislation.

Ben-Gvir:

Prison Service has already begun building death-row facility

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir told Arutz Sheva that the Israel Prison Service is already constructing the facility to execute terrorists under the recently passed law.

MK blasts opponents of death penalty for terrorists

Otzma Yehudit lawmaker who initiated the death penalty bill pushes back against criticism from the left and the defense establishment: “The best proof that the law is deterrent and effective.

Ben-Gvir sends voice recording to millions of Israelis

Minister Ben-Gvir distributed a personal recording to millions of Israeli citizens to celebrate the passage of the law imposing a death penalty on terrorists.

US refuses to condemn Israel’s new death penalty for terrorists

State Department spokesperson affirms US respect for Israel’s sovereign right to set its own penalties for terrorism, after the Knesset approves Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill.

Celebrating the death penalty

Ben-Gvir and party raise a toast

After the Knesset approved the law mandating the death penalty for terrorists, Minister Ben-Gvir and party raise a toast: 'May we execute as many terrorists as possible.'

"We are making history"

Knesset approves death penalty for terrorists law

The Knesset plenum approved the death penalty for terrorists law in second and third readings, after a heated debate. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu voted in favor of the law

European ministers warn Israel over death penalty bill

Germany, France, Italy and the UK voice concern over proposed Israeli legislation allowing death penalty for terrorists, claiming harm to human rights and 'inhumane' punishment.

Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill

Netanyahu to vote in favor, will MK Maoz support?

Netanyahu announces he will vote in favor of the death penalty for terrorists. His statement may pave the way for support from Yisrael Beytenu, which has made its backing conditional on his personal participation. MK Avi Maoz is awaiting instructions from his rabbi.

Israel fires back

EU slams Israel’s death penalty bill

The EU strongly criticizes Israel for advancing a bill allowing the death penalty for terrorists, calling it a “grave step backward." Israel’s Foreign Ministry hit back, accusing the EU of blatant double standards.

Will they vote in favor?

Death penalty for terrorists: Yisrael Beytenu's condition

Yisrael Beytenu party says it will vote in favor of Otzma Yehudit's death penalty bill if the Prime Minister is present in the Knesset and votes in favor.

Ahead of final vote

Knesset committee approves Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill

Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill clears a major hurdle and is scheduled to go to the Knesset plenum for final approval next week.

A rabbinic view:

On the death penalty for terrorists

A terrorist is not an ordinary pursuer intending to kill a specific individual, but someone who seeks to kill any Jew who happens to cross his path. How does halakha deal with that?

Bereaved Mother:

'May all your colleagues end up on a gallows'

A bereaved mother addressed Arab opposition members present in a committee meeting today, accusing them of supporting terror and denying the massacre.

Death penalty noose pin banned from the Knesset

Elad Deputy Mayor Yaniv Badlov was refused entry to the Knesset over a noose-shaped pin backing the death penalty for terrorists; the directive is under review.

Eliya Cohen's powerful response to Hamas

Hamas captivity survivor Eliya Cohen responds to terror group's claim that bill sentencing terrorists to death would violate international treaties.

Prison Service prepares to implement death penalty for terrorists

The Israel Prison Service has begun preparing to implement the death penalty law for terrorists: a hanging facility, volunteer teams, and executions to be carried out within 90 days of a final verdict.

Terrorist involved in Yehuda Dimentman's murder sentenced

Military court sentences terrorist who murdered Yehuda Dimentman, a young father, to life in prison, imposes unprecedented damages.

Posters in Jerusalem denounce death penalty law

Among other things, they wrote that imposing the death penalty contradicts Jewish tradition, which effectively abolished capital-punishment laws some two thousand years ago.

Mossad supports death penalty for terrorists (with caveats)

Security agency tell Knesset panel the measure could serve as a deterrent, while stressing courts must retain authority to rule case by case.

Death penalty for terrorists? Shin Bet changes its approach

Shin Bet supports death penalty for terrorists, 'there were concerns in the past regarding the implications of such a move'

Ben Gvir:

Death penalty for terrorists essential for deterrence and justice

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir renewed his call to pass legislation imposing the death penalty on terrorists, saying it is necessary to deter attacks and protect Israeli citizens and vowing to push the bill forward without delay.

'Protest symbol' will not be put to death

Erfan Soltani, who was sentenced to death for his part in the protests in Iran, will not be executed.

Terrorist's judges to be authorized to impose death penalty

The terrorist who murdered Binyamin Achimeir wil be tried before a military court authorized to decree capital punishment.

ISA official recommends hanging for terrorists

A former ISA official told a Knesset committee today that the cultural impact of hanging gives it more significance than other options for the death penalty.

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Left-wing MK gives right-wing MK noose pin

Democrats MK Gilad Kariv noticed Otzma Yehudit MK Yitzhak Kroizer didn't have the noose pin his party has been using to call for the death penalty for terrorists and gave him one personally.

Family of murdered teen demands death penalty

Binyamin Achimeir's family is demanding that the terrorist who murdered him be put to death. 'This is not only the desire for retribution, but the need to deter and to restore order to our society.'

Saudi Arabia sets new execution record with 356 deaths in 2025

Saudi Arabia executed 356 people in 2025, a new record driven by its “war on drugs.” Rights groups warn the surge contradicts the kingdom’s reform narrative and disproportionately affects foreigners.

Four years since the attack:

Dimentman family demands death penalty for the terrorist

A sentencing hearing was held today at the Samaria military court for one of the terrorists who murdered Yehuda Dimentman near Homesh about four years ago. The family demanded the death penalty.

Knesset holds hearing on bill to sentence terrorists to death

Knesset National Security Committee discusses 'Death Penalty for Terrorists' bill, injured veteran stresses bill 'is a must.'

Pittsburgh synagogue shooter appeals death sentence

Defense attorneys for Pittsburgh synagogue shooter Robert Bowers file a 500-page appeal citing juror errors and shackling concerns, seeking a resentencing from the Third Circuit Court.

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Police applaud Ben Gvir's Comments on death penalty

The Minister of National Security spoke at a ceremony at the Police College in Beit Shemesh, and when he referred to the death penalty law for terrorists, he received thunderous applause.

Ben Gvir’s circle against Levin: Undermines the death penalty law

Otzma Yehudit claims that the restrictions proposed by Justice Minister Yariv Levin on the death penalty law for terrorists would create future loopholes preventing its implementation.

Draft of bill published

How the Nukhba terrorists will be prosecuted

The bill establishes a military tribunal mechanism for prosecuting participants in the October 7 attack, with the authority to impose the death penalty and without the possibility of future release.

Soldier seen wearing patch depicting noose

IDF investigating image of a soldier wearing a sleeve patch depicting a noose similar to a lapel pin worn by Otzma Yehudit members to support the death penalty for terrorists.

Ben Gvir

Arab MKs risk losing 'cultural heroes' with death penalty bill

National Security Minister says at Otzma Yehudit faction meeting that the death penalty for terrorists law would endanger the "cultural heroes" of MKs Tibi, Abbas, and Odeh.

Otzma Yehudit MKs arrive at Knesset wearing 'gallows' pins

MKs from the Otzma Yehudit party arrive at National Security Committee meeting on death penalty for terrorists wearing 'noose' pins to show commitment to passing bill.

IDF & ISA: Death penalty for terrorists would be a deterrent

The Cabinet discussed the proposal for the death penalty for terrorists. Shin Bet and the IDF expressed principled support for the law, calling it 'a very deterrent tool.'

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'You're afraid this law will apply to your friends'

A stormy clash took place this morning in the Knesset National Security Committee during a discussion on a bill to impose the death penalty on terrorists. Several MKs were ejected from the hearing.

Lethal injection:

The principles of the death penalty law for terrorists

According to the published principles, the death penalty law will only apply to the murder of Jews and there will be no ability to appeal the sentence, which will be carried out within 90 days by lethal injection.

Rabbi Cherlow

Death penalty for Nukhba terrorists - But not for all terrorists

Rabbi Yuval Cherlow stated that the death penalty for Hamas’s Nukhba terrorists is justified, but warned that sweeping legislation imposing it on all terrorists could endanger Israel.

The Rightist Case against a Death Penalty for Islamic terrorists

The core argument is simple: capital punishment would convert Arab terrorists into international heroes. Opinion.

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Ben Gvir and Odeh clash as Knesset ushers intervene

During a heated debate on the death penalty for terrorists bill, Minister Itamar Ben Gvir clashes with Arab MKs, prompting Knesset ushers to separate him from MK Ayman Odeh. The bill passes its first reading; Ben Gvir distributes baklava.

Ben Gvir

'Terrorists who come to kill will only be released to hell'

Ben Gvir noted at a faction meeting that after the first reading of the death penalty for terrorists law in the plenum, the committee will begin accelerated discussions with the aim of quickly enacting the legislation.

Haredi Degel Hatorah to veto death sentence for terrorists

Bill to sentence terrorists to death expected to be brought for vote, as Ashkenazic-haredi party announces opposition, abstention.

Bill for death penalty for terrorists passes first reading

In confidential meeting, National Security Committee notes change in security bodies' positions, as bill to allow death penalty for terrorists passes first Knesset reading.

Death penalty for terrorists bill:

Ben Gvir pressures, vote to be held next week

Following an ultimatum from National Security Minister Ben Gvir, the bill will be brought to a vote next week. “It’s time to deliver justice,” he says.

Death penalty for Nukhbas?

The law that exists but never lives

Under existing law, the nukhba murderers who attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, are already eligible for execution. As things stand, none will face it. Opinion.

'Within three weeks'

Ben-Gvir's ultimatum for the government

National Security Minister announces that if legislation for a death penalty for terrorists is not brought for a vote in the Knesset within three weeks, his party would stop voting with the coalition.

Ben-Gvir's ultimatum: Death penalty or breaking the government

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir warned that he would leave the government if Prime Minister Netanyahu did not promote the death penalty for captured Hamas terrorists.

A halakhic and moral imperative:

Reinstating the death penalty in Israel

A nation that frees its murderers cannot protect its children. The lesson Hamas learned in past deals was not Israel's mercy. It was that Jewish blood has a price-and that price is Israel's willingness to empty its prisons.

Will the Oct. 7th terrorists be put to death?

Justice Minister Yariv Levin and MKs Simcha Rothman and Yulia Malinovsky will advance a bill to accelerate trials of Nukhba terrorists behind the October 7th Massacre.

Ben Gvir:

'We will dismantle Hamas and enact death penalty for terrorists'

Minister Itamar Ben Gvir speaks at a memorial for murdered hostage Uriel Baruch: “Terrorists must not be allowed to walk away alive.”

Death Penalty for Terrorists Bill approved in first reading

The National Security Committee met this morning to discuss the bill imposing the death penalty for terrorists. The Coordinator of Prisoners and Missing Persons, Gal Hirsch, came to the debate and expressed opposition to the law's promotion now.

Danger or justice?

Fierce arguments during death penalty bill debate

The National Security Committee convened this morning to discuss the proposed death penalty law for terrorists. The Coordinator for Prisoners and Missing Persons, Gal Hirsch, attended the session and expressed opposition to passing the law at this time.

Charlie Kirk murder suspect confessed on Discord

Lance Twigs, accomplice of the suspect Taylor Robinson, revealed messages in which Robinson admits to the murder of pro‑Israel right‑wing activist Charlie Kirk

Accused assassin of Charlie Kirk charged, could face firing squad

Alleged killer Tyler Robinson charged with 7 counts, including aggravated murder. Utah County Attorney Jeff Gray says he will seek the death penalty.