Anyone who has read the court transcripts understands that no power can save Benjamin Netanyahu from conviction on at least some of the charges. But the pardon request submitted to President Herzog contains no hint of this, and appears to be the most brazen request ever submitted

Thirty-eight percent of Israelis would support pardoning the Prime Minister, a poll published by Kan news found. In a Channel 12 News poll, 42 percent opposed a pardon without Netanyahu's resignation

A far-right minister said he would vote against a highly controversial bill exempting ultra-Orthodox men from military conscription, even if the prime minister fires him, as debates resume in the Knesset's Defense Committee

Since October 7, defense spending has jumped by tens of billions of shekels a year and Israel's reputation has suffered overseas. The economy will feel these effects for years to come, even if we are far from the 'lost decade' after the Yom Kippur War

Some of the 160 delegates from Germany tell Haaretz that the the five-day, all-expenses-paid trip lacked critical narratives. 'The messages of the delegation was very nationalist ... there were no perspective for diplomacy or peacebuilding,' reports one participant

As with Trump, Netanyahu's only concern is the bottom line. And with American Jews distracted or too weary, he may make it out unscathed yet again