Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has submitted a request for a formal pardon amid a yearslong corruption trial, just weeks after President Donald Trump said he should be pardoned.

“Today, my lawyers submitted a request for clemency to the President of the State,” Netanyahu said in a video address posted on X Sunday.

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“The continuation of the trial is tearing us apart from within, provoking fierce divisions, intensifying divisions,” he said. “My personal interest was and remains to continue the process until the end, until I am fully acquitted of all charges, but the security and political realities, the national interest, require otherwise.”

Netanyahu is facing charges of fraud , breach of trust and a

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