Itamar Ben Gvir Quotes

Jerusalem's Old City. October 8, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90) National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir said Saturday he had given Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a deadline to dismantle Hamas and enact the death penalty for terrorists, threatening that if his conditions were not met, his far-right Otzma Yehudit party would quit the government. “What I want, and this is also what Netanyahu promised me, is the dismantlement of Hamas, and if he doesn’t dismantle Hamas, he knows very well what will happen,” Ben Gvir told Channel 12’s Meet The Press in an interview. He declined to say how much time he had given Netanyahu to comply with his demands, which also include implementing a death penalty for terrorists, something he said was promised in his party’s coalition agreement in 2022.