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Israeli Minister Ben Gvir Receives Birthday Cake From His Wife Featuring a Noose Meant for Palestinian Prisoners

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Itamar Ben Gvir celebrates his 50th birthday as his wife, Ayala Ben Gvir, presents a cake decorated with a noose widely interpreted as a symbol of the controversial death penalty law recently passed by the Knesset, which critics say applies exclusively to Palestinians. (Credit: YouTube: MiddleEastEye)

Ayala Ben Gvir presented her husband, Israel's far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, with a birthday cake decorated with a noose at a private party on 2 May 2026, in what was widely understood as a celebration of the death penalty legislation he championed that can be applied only to Palestinians.

The 50th birthday party, held at the agricultural community of Emunim near Ashdod in southern Israel, featured two cakes adorned with noose imagery. Footage from the event, shared on Ben Gvir's own Instagram account, showed Ayala giving her husband a smaller cake also bearing the symbol.

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