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Israel's new death penalty law marks moral break, sparks discrimination fears, expert says

For Prof. Yoram Rabin, a criminal and constitutional law scholar and president of the College of Management Academic Studies, the law is both a moral rupture and a legally vulnerable one.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
A VOTE on the death penalty for terrorists who murder Israeli civilians at the auditorium in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026.
Yosef Ben David, currently serving a life sentence, was the ringleader of the group which killed Palestinian teen Mohammed Abu Khdeir

Court upholds convictions of Israelis who murdered, burned Palestinian teen

Abu Khdeir was abducted, burned and brutally murdered on July 2, 2014 after being kidnapped by Yosef Ben David and two minors.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Palestinian members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) take part in a military show in Gaza

Muhammad Abu Khdeir indicted for PFLP shooting

Some of the three defendants, including Abbas Salhi and Amru Maatuk, also engaged in rock throwing and public disorder against security forces.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
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UNSC envoys split on decision to refer Libya to ICC

Countries undecided on whether deadly crackdown on protesters should be referred to International Criminal Court; agreement exits on sanctions that include arms embargo, travel ban and asset freeze against Gaddafi.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL

Planned Koran burning in US called off by Florida pastor

Rev. Terry Jones claims that NY imam agreed to move site of Ground Zero mosque to prevent Koran burning, Muslims clerics deny quid pro quo.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010ByJPOST EDITORIAL
311_Koran book burning averted