Disregarding the explicit opposition of her legal adviser, Ido Ben Yitzhak, the Knenette National Security Committee approved yesterday the first reading bill entitled "Amendment - Death Penalty for Terrorists".
The justification of the proposal of the proposal notes that the amendment of the Criminal Code is made so that, according to its authors, it will eliminate terrorism at its source and create a significant deterrent.
On the basis of the proposal, a terrorist who has been convicted of murder motivated racism or hostility to a social group, and in cases where the act was committed in order to harm the state of Israel will be sentenced to death - compulsory.
The proposal also seeks to determine that the death penalty can even be imposed by a majority vote and that it will not be possible to reduce the sentence of someone who has received a final sentence.
The committee's legal adviser had explicitly warned that if the vote was carried out, it would be annulled, explaining that before the debate in which the decision was made was made with him and the Attorney General of Kneset, and there was an agreement that no vote on the law would be carried out. Our position is that it is imperative to hear the security data that was not heard and to have a substantial debate on the laws of the law, "Ben Yijhak said.
In its founding, Israel has the death penalty in the Criminal Code, however, it was only implemented once: in the case of Adolf Eichmann, the so -called Holocaust architect who was abducted by Mosad agents in Argentina in 1962 and was transferred to Israel.
