Sixty-two lawmakers, together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, voted in favour and 48 in opposition to the invoice, championed by far-right Nationwide Safety Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
There was one abstention and the remainder of the lawmakers weren’t current.
Ben Gvir within the run-up to the vote had worn a lapel pin within the form of a noose, symbolising his assist for the laws.
“We made historical past!!! We promised. We delivered,” he posted on X after the vote.
The invoice would make the loss of life penalty the default punishment for Palestinians within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution discovered responsible of deliberately finishing up lethal assaults deemed “acts of terrorism” by an Israeli army court docket.
The invoice says that the sentence could also be lowered to life imprisonment beneath “particular circumstances”.
Palestinians within the West Financial institution are routinely tried in Israeli army courts.
