With the support of Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, the NDI faction in the Knesset again filed a bill on the death penalty for terrorists - after the last time all coalition parties, including Likud and the Jewish House voted against it.
In accordance with the bill, which was presented by the chairman of the faction Robert Ilatov, the death sentence can be imposed on terrorists-killers. Moreover, the army tribunal will be able to pass such a verdict by a majority of the judges, and not unanimously.
"The relatives and friends of those who perished at the hands of terrorists daily and hourly experience unbearable mental pain and suffering, while the killers are in prison in comfortable conditions for them," says Robert Ilatov. "We are not ready to accept this." This is not a containment policy. The law must be clear and unambiguous: a terrorist who has come to kill innocent civilians must not remain alive. "
The court of Gonen, whose son Dani was killed in the terrorist attack near the village of Dolev about 2.5 years ago, is working to create an organization that will unite the families of those killed at the hands of terrorists.
"Unfortunately, the voice of those who have lost their loved ones is not heard enough. I see my role as a mother, so that Dani is not looked at as a case number, not as just another name, but as a person whose life was taken away in a second. Citizens of Israel do not even realize how many benefits prisoners are receiving from terrorists and their families. If a decade ago the families of those who died at the hands of terrorists believed in their own strength, in their ability to achieve change and began to act, then perhaps their number would now be much smaller. Today it is profitable to be a terrorist. I want to be sure that the perpetrator of the terrorist act will lose everything. Unfortunately, Dani was not the last, and apparently the Solomon family, whose three members were brutally murdered, will not be the last such family, "says Dvora Gonen.
The right-wing youth movement "Im tirtsu", which defends Zionist values, actively fights against leftist hegemony in Israeli universities and supports the relatives of the victims of terror in their struggle against terrorists, fully supported the initiative of the "Our Home Israel" party.
"We have come to an absurd situation, when it is more profitable to kill an Israeli than steal a car from him," says Matan Peleg, chairman of "They Tirtzu." "Terrorists receive such privileges and indulgences in prisons that no prisoner can even dream of for criminal offenses. Families of terrorists receive full legal support, funded by foreign governments. It is a phenomenon that can not be tolerated in any case. It's time to create a real deterrent. Advancing the draft law on the death penalty for terrorists is an extremely important preventive step, "emphasizes Matan Peleg
