
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in a state memorial ceremony for the fallen soldiers of the two-year war in the Gaza Strip at the Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on Oct. 16, 2025. Alex Kolomoisky/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has publicly requested that Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardon him over the corruption cases he has battled for half a decade.
“My lawyers filed today a pardon request to the state’s president,” Netanyahu said in a Nov. 30 statement, translated from Hebrew to English.

