Netanyahu asks Israeli president for pardon from corruption charges
Netanyahu asks Israeli president for pardon from corruption charges
M.U.H
30/11/202510
The Israeli regime's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has asked the president to grant him a pardon from corruption charges.
On Sunday, Netanyahu submitted a formal pardon request to the office of Israeli President Isaac Herzog. The office confirmed it had received Netanyahu's "extraordinary request" for a pardon from all charges against him and his family.
Herzog's office noted that any decision on the request will carry “significant implications” inside the regime and internationally.
Herzog must now decide on Netanyahu's pardon request.
Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump, who himself faces numerous charges in US courts, wrote to Herzog recommending that he pardon Netanyahu.
Critics say Trump and Netanyahu are accomplices in crime, and both have the blood of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian people on their hands.
In a video statement, Netanyahu claimed the long-running corruption cases were tearing the Israeli regime apart.
He claimed that he really wanted to continue the legal process until his formal court acquittal, "but the security and political reality" of the Israeli regime requires otherwise.
The Israeli regime "is facing enormous challenges," he insisted, claiming, "The continuation of the trial is tearing us apart from within, arousing fierce divisions, intensifying rifts."
Netanyahu faces charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of public trust in three separate cases.
In one of the cases alone, lodged against Netanyahu and his wife, the duo is accused of receiving luxury items worth more than $260,000 in the form of expensive cigars, jewellery, and champagne in exchange for political favors.
The cases against Netanyahu have exposed the wide division among the Israelis. His supporters have dismissed the trials as politically motivated, while his opponents see them as ample evidence of the prime minister's criminality.
This comes as Netanyahu is also the subject of an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court (ICC) over war crimes against innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan announced in 2024 that he was seeking warrants for Netanyahu and his former war minister, Yoav Gallant.
The Israeli regime and its backers have rejected the ICC’s jurisdiction, and Netanyahu has claimed Khan's ruling is politically motivated.
The international arrest warrant issued by the ICC, alongside the domestic corruption cases filed against Netanyahu, adds to the mounting pressure on the embattled Israeli PM amid the regime’s genocidal war on the Palestinian people in Gaza.
