Rom Braslavski was working security at the Nova music festival on Oct. 7, 2023, when Palestinian terrorists overran it and abducted him to Gaza.

Held for nearly two years by Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Braslavski was shown in captivity skeletal and weeping. After his October 2025 release, he described regular beatings and said he had been stripped, bound, and subjected to sexual violence intended to humiliate him.

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While interviewing Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on his new podcast, Braslavski made an extraordinary request: allow him to personally carry out executions of terrorists sentenced to death. “Let me be the one who hangs them,” he said. Then he clarified: “I don’t want a rope; I want a button.” Ben-Gvir promised to try to make it happen.

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Israel has also expanded capital punishment this year, so the request is not theoretical.

Were I Rom Braslavski, having endured what he endured, I believe I would ask Ben-Gvir the same thing.

If I had been kidnapped, imprisoned for nearly two years, beaten, humiliated, and sexually abused, I might want the men responsible dead. If they were lawfully........

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