"The sages of the Talmud ended the death penalty when the number of murderers increased."

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Jan 7, 2026 · 31m

In early December, YNet reported (in an article Google-translated below) on a meeting of the National Security Committee to which Itamar Ben Gvir and the other members of the Jewish Power political party arrived wearing yellow pins, clearly meant to evoke the image of the yellow ribbon for hostages that Ben Gvir had ignored, now refashioned to look like a noose.

Ben Gvir, YNet noted, was not committed to hanging as the only option for executing terrorists—there’s also the electric chair or anesthesia, he was quick to point out.

Thus far, the movement to impose the death penalty in Hamas…