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Israel has long been considered abolitionist, having executed only one individual in its history. While past attempts to reinstate the death penalty have proven unsuccessful, the horrendous scale of the October 7 attack and the ensuing traumatic war have been used to generate political momentum. A new bill, which passed its first reading in the Knesset in November 2025, would impose the death penalty for terrorism-related offenses. The bill should be understood as part of a broader capital punishment revivalism trend in populist regimes, with Israel potentially setting a dangerous precedent for attempts to reinstate the death penalty in Europe and beyond. CC BY-SA 4.0 Kozlov, Noam Authoritarian Populism Human Rights Israel Populism Todesstrafe death penalty Todesstrafe 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/death-penalty-populism/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/349bea9bd544019d 260123 10.59704/349bea9bd544019d Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)