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Report: PM’s wife pressed Likud ministers to sign letter calling for presidential pardon
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wife Sara lobbied Likud ministers to sign a letter to President Isaac Herzog calling for a pardon for her husband, Kan news reports.
The letter was submitted to Herzog yesterday. Spearheaded by Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman and signed by every one of Likud’s 19 ministers and deputy ministers, it contends that the trial is “harming the unity of the people” and says that Netanyahu is “leading a historic victory over the enemies of Israel.” It urges Herzog to seize the moment.
The Kan report says Netanyahu’s wife pressed several ministers who had not signed the letter in the past week, saying: “This is good timing — even Trump asked, it’s important for us. The cases are baseless and will lead nowhere anyway, let’s just finish with this.”
Kan says following Sara’s appeal, ministers who were hesitating “fell in line” and signed the letter.
The Times of Israel Community.