{"id":167681,"date":"2025-11-30T14:08:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167681\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T14:08:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T14:08:07","slug":"binyamin-netanyahu-submits-request-to-president-for-pardon-in-corruption-trial-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/167681\/","title":{"rendered":"Binyamin Netanyahu submits request to president for pardon in corruption trial \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/israel\/\">Israeli<\/a> prime minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/binyamin-netanyahu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/binyamin-netanyahu\/\">Binyamin Netanyahu<\/a> has asked the president to grant him a pardon during his long-running corruption trial that has bitterly divided the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a statement on Sunday the prime minister\u2019s office said Mr Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department of the Office of the President.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The office called it an \u201cextraordinary request\u201d with \u201csignificant implications\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Netanyahu is the only sitting prime minister in Israeli history to stand trial after being charged with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three cases accusing him of exchanging favours with wealthy political supporters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Mr Netanyahu has not yet been convicted of anything. He denies the charges and has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">The request comes weeks after US president Donald Trump urged Israel to pardon him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">In a videotaped statement, Mr Netanyahu said the trial has divided the country and a pardon would help restore national unity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">He also said the requirement that he appear in court three times a week is a distraction that makes it difficult for him to lead the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">His request consisted of two documents: a detailed letter signed by his lawyer and a letter signed by Mr Netanyahu. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">They will be sent to the justice ministry for opinions and will then be transferred to the legal adviser in the Office of the President, which will formulate additional opinions for the president, Yitzhak Herzog. \u2013 AP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu has asked the president to grant him a pardon during his long-running corruption&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10748,42,3410,3411,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-167681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-binyamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-hamas-conflict","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-news","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-topnews","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}