Uzi Baram

01:34 AM • May 12 2026 IDT

Whoever imagined five years ago that Itamar Ben-Gvir, a marginal Kahanist activist, would one day be a senior minister who would not only succeed in legislating the death penalty, but whose wife would present him with a birthday cake decorated with a noose for all the world to see, please raise your hand.

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