On the holiest of Jewish days of atonement, Israeli President Isaac Herzog extended a pardon to Elor Azaria, a former soldier convicted of fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian man in Hebron in 2016. The act, absolute and unreviewable under Israeli law, closed the legal chapter on a case that had already cleaved Israeli society — while leaving open the deeper questions it had always carried: what accountability means when the powerful judge the powerful, and whose lives are weighed in the balance of justice.
Israel's President Pardons Soldier Elor Azaria in Controversial 2016 Killing
A Palestinian man was shot and killed by soldier Elor Azaria in 2016.