The Justice Ministry’s Pardons Department says it has handed over the additional materials requested by President Isaac Herzog’s office about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s pardon request.
The president’s legal adviser, Michal Tzuk, had said Sunday that she was requesting from the ministry “additional supplementary materials,” including “precedents in the exercise of the pardon authority prior to the conclusion of criminal proceedings.”
Herzog is under intense pressure from coalition members and from US President Donald Trump to pardon Netanyahu, who is standing trial on one charge of bribery, as well as three charges of fraud and breach of trust, after being indicted in 2020.
Earlier this month, the Pardons Department filed a position paper on Netanyahu’s pardon request, determining that pardoning him would be problematic and unprecedented because his trial is ongoing and the November pardon request did not admit guilt or express remorse.
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