{"id":2500,"date":"2025-12-01T13:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/netanyahu-court-hearing-delay-corruption-pardon-request\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T13:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T13:15:29","slug":"netanyahu-court-hearing-delay-corruption-pardon-request","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2025\/12\/01\/netanyahu-court-hearing-delay-corruption-pardon-request\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu Seeks to Postpone Court Hearing Amid Corruption Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has requested a postponement of his court session scheduled for today. This move follows a pattern of previous attempts by Netanyahu to delay legal proceedings, often citing internal matters or security developments as reasons for his absence.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by Yedioth Ahronoth, Netanyahu has repeatedly sought to prolong the judicial process with various pretexts, an action that has drawn criticism from political activists and opponents alike.<\/p>\n<p>Sources report that on the previous day, Netanyahu sent a formal letter to the President of Israel requesting a pardon in his ongoing corruption cases. However, the request has faced opposition from elements within Israel\u2019s political system as well as protests from groups in the occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>Some members of the opposition have indicated that they would be willing to consider supporting a pardon for Netanyahu\u2014on the condition that he steps down from power. These developments come amid a politically charged atmosphere in Israel, heavily influenced by Netanyahu\u2019s controversial standing in legal and corruption matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli PM Netanyahu seeks to delay court hearing amid growing backlash over repeated postponements and a request for pardon in corruption cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}