A decade after a filmed killing in Hebron, Israeli President Isaac Herzog has erased the criminal record of Elor Azaria, the soldier convicted of shooting an incapacitated Palestinian man. The act of clemency, timed to Yom Kippur, closes a legal chapter that many inside and outside Israel had argued was never fully reckoned with. In granting what his office framed as mercy, Herzog has reignited a deeper question that haunts every society that wages war: who bears responsibility when the rules of conduct are broken, and what does forgiveness mean when remorse is absent and the dead cannot speak
Israeli President Pardons Soldier Convicted of Killing Wounded Palestinian
Abdel Fattah al-Sharif was killed by soldier Elor Azaria in March 2016 after being incapacitated by Israeli troops.