Herzog weighs reducing sentence of Ami Popper, perpetrator of the “Ayun Qara massacre”

Tel Aviv / PNN /

Israeli President Isaac Herzog is considering exercising his clemency powers to shorten the prison term of Ami Popper, the extremist convicted of killing seven Palestinian workers in the 1990 “Ayun Qara massacre,” if a prisoner exchange deal is reached with Hamas, according to a report published Sunday by Yedioth Ahronoth.

The paper said Herzog has yet to make a final decision, but the pardons department in the President’s Office and the Justice…