Ben Gvir to bring bill mandating death penalty

Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel's far-right national security minister, has said that he will bring for initial approval a bill on Monday mandating the use of the death penalty on "terrorists". 

"I expect all members of Knesset to support this important bill," he wrote on X. 

Israel has only used the death penalty twice in 75 years, one of which was to execute Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann in 1962.