Israeli President Isaac Herzog has decided not to issue a pardon to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, the New York Times reported on Sunday.
The report says that Herzog will instead push for a mediation process to reach a plea deal, quoting two senior Israeli officials.
According to the officials, Herzog believes that the main role of Israel’s president is to foster unity so “he does not plan to say yes or no to Netanyahu’s request for a pardon.”
It is unlikely that Netanyahu will agree to mediation since a plea deal requires an admission of wrongdoing, something that the prime minister has repeatedly said he will not agree to. The cases against Netanyahu have fallen apart one by one in the courtroom, with multiple claims disproven or withdrawn. In addition, multiple incidents of police investigators acting illegally in the cases have been revealed in the courtroom.
The report follows months of pressure from US President Donald Trump on Herzog to grant Netanyahu a pardon.
In response to the report and inquiries from media outlets, Herzog’s office issued a statement saying: “As he has stated several times in the past, President Isaac Herzog sees reaching an agreement between the parties in the cases of Prime Minister Netanyahu as a proper and appropriate solution. Negotiations toward an agreement are an essential part of the effort to bring the parties to a consensus.”
“Therefore, the president believes that it is right first, before discussing the pardon request itself, to exhaust a process that could lead to formulating an agreement between the parties, outside the walls of the courtroom.”
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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Trump should just cut off all aid to israel and see how they scramble to try to stay afloat financially. They listen to trump on everything else as well as to the Europeans. Now you know why no Chareidi should join an army that allows and enforces girls,trans and gays T be part of the army. Your 18 year old will be corrupted by such an indoctrination center.
Herzog should rot for all time in hell, for having endangered the entire Israeli & Jewish people by not letting Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu focus on his job of taking care of Israel safety, now having to waste precious time & resources in kangaroo court.
The money being wasted on kangaroo court could be so much better spent on Yeshivas & child daycare centers.
Until this day I thought of Herzog to be a respectable individual: aside from the sad, unfortunate fact that he is not a Shomer Torah Umitzvos. But today’s message sees me agreeing with Trump although I never thought I would. President Herzog is not as I thought!
As this site is American, the headline should read “Israeli President Herzog…” not merely “President Herzog”.
Yapchik, Herzog IS a shomer Torah.
147, Flatbush yid, your hatred of medinat Yisroel is disgusting. Your place in gehinnom is awaiting your arrival.
Unlike dryidd, my אהבת ישראל is so intense, that I recited full הלל on יום-העצמאות, & I have such respect & admiration for Prime-Minister Bibi Netanyahu, that I’m absolutely disgusted to the core that he is being subjected to such a corrupt kangaroo court & herzog could have exhibited decency & bring this corruption to an end, but chose to show his disgusting but true colors, & is an ongoing disgrace to his great grandfather the Chief Rabbi of Israel 🇮🇱, & to the entire מדינה, as well as having no respect whatsoever for President Donald Trump שליט”א who is such a venerated genuine אוהב ישראל as well as a רודף שלום
Herzog is a shomrei western values and liberalism. I already know someone is crooked when dr.shmadYidd sticks up for someone it automatically means you have to suspect it like amalek because he’s a rabbi hater and calls for ending learning
DrAntiTorah & AntiChareidy: since when is hatred of the Medinah shel shmad who turned hundreds of thousands torah true Yidden to chilonim, disgusting? No, it gives us a high place in Gan Eden!
Do you remember the 700 Yaldei Tehran, who’s names were changed, so frum relatives would not find them?
Do you remember the hundreds babies from frum Yemenite families being abducted and their families told they died?
Do you remember the thousands of Yemenite and Moroccan Jews at arrival almost forcibly made into Mechallelei Shabbos?
How much Judaism is being taught in the Mamlachti schools?
DrYidd, what are you talking about? Neither Herzog nor his father were shomrei Torah. His father was חומץ בן יין. He had no excuse of being a תינוק שנשבה — on the contrary, he was raised by one of the gedolei hador, and he deliberately abandoned Hashem and His Torah, and raised his son to do the same.