{"id":291513,"date":"2026-02-14T20:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291513\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:09:09","slug":"president-herzogs-camp-presses-benjamin-netanyahu-on-donald-trump-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/291513\/","title":{"rendered":"President Herzog&#8217;s camp presses Benjamin Netanyahu on Donald Trump comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sources close to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/author\/isaac-herzog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">President Herzog<\/a> are demanding clarifications from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding whether he is connected to\u00a0 US President Donald Trump&#8217;s statement that Herzog &#8220;should be ashamed&#8221; for not giving the prime minister a pardon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;If so, this constitutes crossing a red line,&#8221; the sources said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, in comments to the press, Trump said that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-886571\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Netanyahu<\/a> should receive a pardon for corruption charges and that Herzog should be &#8220;ashamed of himself&#8221; for not granting one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;I think the people of Israel should really shame him. He&#8217;s disgraceful for not giving it. He should give it,&#8221; Trump said at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;President Herzog values President Trump for his significant contribution to the State of Israel and its security. Israel is a sovereign state governed by the rule of law,&#8221; Herzog&#8217;s office stated, adding, &#8220;contrary to the impression created by President Trump&#8217;s remarks, President Herzog has not yet made any decision on the matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The statement was released as Herzog was mid-flight, returning to Israel after his visit to Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by one of the reporters traveling with him for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">his personal reaction<\/a>, Herzog said, \u201cTo the best of my recollection, I am the president of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Herb Keinon and Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sources close to President Herzog are demanding clarifications from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding whether he is connected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,54,85,2894,46,76085,43,238],"class_list":{"0":"post-291513","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-justice-ministry","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291513","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=291513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}