Margalit Har-Shefi has submitted an official request for a pardon to President Moshe Katzav. She is scheduled to begin a nine-month prison sentence this coming Wednesday. Har-Shefi was convicted of knowing in advance of Yigal Amir\'s plans to murder Yitzchak Rabin, and of not stopping him. She has consistently denied knowing of his intentions. Katzav said ambivalently yesterday, \"A person who actually knew of plans to kill someone and stood idly by deserves not nine months, but 90 years.\" He said that he will deal with the pardon request \"according to law.\"