{"id":132174,"date":"2025-11-14T02:04:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/132174\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T02:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T02:04:15","slug":"in-letter-to-israeli-president-isaac-herzog-trump-urges-him-to-pardon-benjamin-netanyahu-battling-graft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/132174\/","title":{"rendered":"In letter to Israeli President Isaac Herzog, Trump urges him to pardon Benjamin Netanyahu battling graft charges"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from US President Donald Trump urging him to consider <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/trump-calls-netanyahu-trial-witch-hunt-says-it-should-be-cancelled-immediately-glbs-2746275-2025-06-26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,<\/a> Herzog&#8217;s office said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiatoday.in\/world\/story\/explainer-israeli-pm-netanyahu-s-corruption-trial-1681387-2020-05-24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">facing a long-running corruption trial,<\/a> and Trump has repeatedly asked for a pardon for his close ally. Netanyahu denies the charges and has pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While I absolutely respect the independence of the Israeli Justice System, and its requirements, I believe that this &#8216;case&#8217; against Bibi, who has fought alongside me for a long time, including against the very tough adversary of Israel, Iran, is a political, unjustified prosecution,&#8221; Trump said in the letter shared by Herzog&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The office said that anyone seeking a presidential pardon must submit a formal request in accordance with the established procedures.<br \/>During Trump&#8217;s visit to Israel in October, he had also urged Herzog to pardon the prime minister in an address to parliament in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu was indicted in 2019 in three cases, including allegations of receiving nearly 700,000 shekels (USD 211,832) in gifts from businessmen.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the largely ceremonial role of the Israeli presidency, Herzog has the authority to pardon convicted criminals under unusual circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>However, Netanyahu&#8217;s trial, which began in 2020, has not yet concluded, and he has pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu has cast his legal ordeal as a left-wing witch-hunt aimed at toppling an elected right-wing leader.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Ends<\/p>\n<p>Published By: <\/p>\n<p>Prateek Chakraborty<\/p>\n<p>Published On: <\/p>\n<p>Nov 12, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Tune In<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli President Isaac Herzog has received a letter from US President Donald Trump urging him to consider granting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,54,85,2894,46,82575,82576,2897,82577,43,627],"class_list":{"0":"post-132174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-isaac-herzog","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-israeli-pm","14":"tag-israeli-president","15":"tag-netanyahu","16":"tag-netanyahu-corruption-trial","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-trump"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}