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Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardoned Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in Hebron in 2016, expunging his criminal record and allowing him to begin a new life, a move that overrode the IDF chief of staff’s opposition and fueled a years-long national debate about accountability and military ethics.
Israel’s president pardoned combat medic Elor Azaria, who killed a badly wounded Palestinian after a stabbing in Hebron, following a defence minister’s recommendation and near Yom Kippur. The 2017 manslaughter conviction remained controversial, with supporters calling the pardon humane and opponents citing security and military conduct concerns; the move does not reopen the case, and it revived long-standing political and public divisions about punishment and legitimacy in the Israeli security system.