In his address to the Israeli parliament on Monday, President Donald Trump called for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be pardoned from his fraud and bribery charges. Trump, who spoke for over an hour, joked with Netanyahu and said he wasn’t the ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has formally requested a presidential pardon amid his long-running corruption trial. He casted himself as the target of a "deep state" campaign designed to force him from office.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the the president to grant him a pardon during his long-running corruption trial that’s bitterly divided the country. In a statement Sunday the prime minister’s office said that Netanyahu had submitted a request for a pardon to the legal department of the Office of the President.