President Reuven Rivlin decided on Monday to reject the request of former tourism minister Stas Misezhnikov to ease his 15-month sentence for corruption.
A statement from the President's Residence said, "The president's decision is based on the fact that this is a request to ease a prison sentence imposed for serious violations of integrity by a very senior public official, who because of their nature are unsuitable for inclusion in the special outline formulated by the president and justice minister in honor of the seventieth year of the State of Israel."