Israel’s contentious death penalty bill has been scheduled for its final vote in the Knesset.
The Knesset National Security Committee advanced the bill on Tuesday, giving MKs the chance to pass it into law next week.
If passed, the legislation would mandate either life imprisonment or capital punishment for those convicted of terror offences which resulted in the deaths of Israelis.
"Whoever intentionally causes the death of a person with the intention of harming a citizen or resident of Israel, with the aim of denying the existence of the State of Israel, shall be sentenced to death or life imprisonment, and one of these punishments only," it states.
This will also apply to terror suspects facing military courts in the West Bank.
The sentence would be carried out by hanging within 90 days of conviction, though the prime minister would have discretion to stay executions for up to 180 days.
The bill has the backing of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has taken to wearing a lapel pin in the shape of a noose to demonstrate his support.
However, it has generated controversy as it would not give the option of the death penalty for Israeli terrorists convicted of killing Palestinians, for example in the case of attacks by extremist settlers.
Israel has only executed two people in its history.
The first, Meir Tobianski, was an IDF soldier convicted of treason via court-martial and hanged in 1948, having been granted no lawyer or right to appeal.
His case was subsequently reviewed by the military advocate general, and he was posthumously exonerated.
The other was Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal known as the "architect of the Holocaust", who was convicted of crimes against humanity and executed in 1962.
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