From Report: PM’s office asked Likud members to speak out in favor of presidential pardon
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President Isaac Herzog speaks at the funeral of Cpt. Daniel Perez in Jerusalem, on October 15, 2025. Perez was killed on Oct. 7, 2023, and his body returned in a ceasefire deal on October 14, 2025. (Haim Zach/GPO)
The Prime Minister’s Office has asked Likud members and ministers to speak out in favor of President Isaac Herzog pardoning the prime minister in his criminal trial, Kan reports, leading several to do so.
The move came after US President Donald Trump sent Herzog a letter urging him to pardon Netanyahu. Herzog responded that the premier must make an official request before he could consider it.
The Kan report says Netanyahu’s inner circle hopes Herzog might speak with the attorney general and urge her to cancel the charge of bribery faced by the premier.
Kan’s Yaara Shapira posits that the PMO is also preparing the public for the possibility that Netanyahu will indeed submit a request for a pardon from Herzog.
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