Tag: Olmert

As President Bush was about to leave office in 2009, Pollard requested clemency for the first time, which was supported by former CIA director James Woolsey.

This is his first time off in 5 months.

On Monday a new chapter will be written in Israel's annals of politics and crime.

The Palestinian Authority chairman compared the Israeli Prime Minister with the notorious Nazi.

Doesn’t Netanyahu understand that the UN opens its mouth if an Israeli home is rocketed and then warns the IDF not to "escalate tensions"?

"You shall not take a bribe, for bribery blinds the eyes of the wise and perverts just words." Deuteronomy 16:19

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert brought to court Tuesday morning a letter from former "peace process" broker Tony Blair in an effort to stay...

Or, would you rather die at the hands of ISIS or AL Qaeda?

A judge denied a request by Ehud Olmert, to fly overseas for a business meeting.

While they continue to hate Israel and seek its destruction, many Arabs admire the independence of Israel's judicial system.

And Ephron told Abraham the land is worth 400 silver shekels, and between us, that’s peanuts. (Genesis: 23:15)

Government prosecutors told a sentence hearing on Monday that the former prime minister should be jailed for at least 6 six years and fined...

The government’s approval of Jews moving into the Hebron building marks a return to a bit of political normalcy.

Perhaps the most remarkable things about Olmert’s speech Monday night were that people still pay him to speak and anyone listens to him.

This is so Last days of Richard M. Nixon, when the ruler is going down, and he's the only one who still doesn't know it.

Uncle Sam and Uncle Jack just have to know some things.

This 'peace' the politicians and media are touting only causes more death and destruction for Jews.

One must presume that President Obama’s most recent calls for Israeli cooperation in the Middle East peace process are balanced, fair, and well-intentioned. Why not? At the same time, unsurprisingly, these all-too-familiar calls are manifestly thin, in the sense that they lack any genuine intellectual content.

Like Europeans, Israelis are mad for their soccer.  For some, soccer is the true religion of the Middle East,  one shared by Muslims and...

Rhetoric aside, real data can answer the question as to who built the most in the Settlements.

Olmert now claims that Netanyahu's decision to move forward with construction in E-1 is 'beyond my comprehension,' but he himself supported building there in the past.

Could there be an Israeli politician more cynical than Ehud Olmert? Yesterday he accused PM Netanyahu of alienating President Obama — as if Obama could dislike him more — by ‘intervening’ in the US election.

The merger of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and the Yisrael Beiteinu party of Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday has left-wing parties scrambling for a solution to the sudden show of solidarity on the part of the pro-nationalist camp.

A new survey commissioned by Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Liberman shows a near-tie between the Likud under Benjamin Netanyahu and a party led by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, bolstered by Tzipi Livni.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and former Kadima chairwoman Tzipi Livni may be throwing their hats into the political arena once more, teaming up to attempt to defeat the nationalist camp headed by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.

Israel's state prosecutor will appeal the acquittals of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in two of three cases decided earlier this year.

Likud Party lawmaker Tzipi Hotovely reportedly petitioned Israel's Central Elections Committee to prevent former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from running for office.

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert told a press conference Monday that he leaves court “standing tall” after being handed a one year suspended sentence and a fine of NIS 75,300 for breaching the public trust in what has been called the “Investment Center Affair”.

“They do not think it’s possible. They do not think it’s in the cards. I think that is one of the reasons diplomacy has failed – and it has failed,” he said.

JERUSALEM – A panel of three Jerusalem regional court judges acquitted former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert on Tuesday of all corruption charges in the Rishon Tours and Moshe Talansky matters. The judges, though, found him guilty of breach of trust in the Investment Center affair, which took place during Olmert’s tenure as minister of industry, trade and labor nearly a decade ago.