Right, so Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel's national security minister and the man politically responsible for its police and prison service, seems to have watched one Bond film too many and decided Israeli prisons were missing something.

Not more staff.

Not better oversight.

Crocodiles.

Yes, actual Nile crocodiles.

And before you roll your eyes and assume Ben-Gvir was just busy posting another foolish AI-generated meme for clicks, the Israeli Prison Service actually sent its top brass to the Hamat Gader crocodile farm on 1 January this year. There they were, peering into the enclosure, questioning the staff about crocodile management, and-because this is apparently real life-asking about the price of a Nile crocodile, as if they were bargaining at a strange pet shop.

The expert, likely questioning his life choices by  ...