Limor Son Har-Melech, who introduced the bill and whose husband was murdered in a 2003 terror attack, stated that the “historic law” means “whoever chooses to murder Jews because they are Jews forfeits their right to live.”
The Knesset voted 62-48 on Monday to pass a bill in its second and third readings imposing the death penalty on terrorists convicted of killing Israelis.
“We have made history. From now on, every mother in Judea and Samaria will know that if her son goes out to murder, his sentence is the gallows,” stated Itamar Ben Gvir, the Israeli national security minister who supported the legislation, in Hebrew.
“I say to the people of the European Union, who have applied pressure and threatened the State of Israel, ‘We are not afraid. We will not submit,’” he stated. “We are in our country with our sovereignty and will protect our citizens. And a terrorist, who goes out to kill, let him know that he will go to the gallows.”
Limor Son Har-Melech, a member of the Knesset from Otzma Yehudit who sponsored the bill, stated in Hebrew that that the passage of the “historic law” means that there will be “no more cycle of murder, imprisonment and release in deals, but a clear determination. Whoever chooses to murder Jews because they are Jews forfeits their right to live.”
