Bibi awaits the next Trump distraction to dodge legal troubles

The ceasefire in Gaza intensifies the Israeli prime minister’s legal problems since he can no longer demand postponements in his trial proceedings due to the war.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, in 2022. Netanyahu has asked Herzog to pardon him in his ongoing corruption trial.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

December 1, 2025

LONDON, U.K.—Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, has just asked the country’s president, Isaac Herzog, to “fully pardon” him of all three charges—bribery, fraud, and breach of trust—for which he has been on trial since 2020. And the question...

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