"After receiving all of the relevant opinions, the president will responsibly and sincerely consider the request," it added.
Netanyahu faces corruption charges in three separate cases. He denies any wrongdoing.
The prime minister made the comments during a joint press conference with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Jerusalem, where the two leaders publicly disagreed on the issue of a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu said: “We have a different point of view, obviously, because the purpose of a Palestinian state is to destroy the one and only Jewish state.”
He added that Israel would not create a state “committed to our destruction at our doorstep.”
Merz reaffirmed Germany’s support for a two-state solution and also confirmed Germany's commitment to Holocaust memorial.
