‘Certainly Not for Jews’: Why Did Israel Kill Off the Death Penalty?

‘Certainly Not for Jews’: Why Did Israel Kill Off the Death Penalty?

In 1954, the commissioner of the Israel Prison Service, Zvi Hermon, held an unusual meeting with four Jewish inmates. At the Tel Mond prison in central Israel, he informed them of the Knesset’s decision to abolish the death penalty – a decision…

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