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/ 29 September 2008
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel must give up almost the entire occupied West Bank as the price for peace with the Palestinians.
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/ 21 September 2008
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his resignation at a Cabinet meeting on Sunday, but he could remain in office for weeks or months.
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/ 21 September 2008
Israel’s corruption-tainted Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, will formally resign on Sunday, Israel Radio reported.
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/ 18 September 2008
Tzipi Livni was narrowly elected leader of Israel’s ruling party and vowed on Thursday to start work immediately on forming a new coalition.
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/ 16 September 2008
Members of Israel’s ruling Kadima party is choosing a new leader on Wednesday to replace discredited Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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/ 16 September 2008
Israel’s embattled Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, still believes a peace deal with the Palestinians is possible by year-end.
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/ 10 September 2008
The US and its allies pose the biggest
danger to world peace
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/ 7 September 2008
Israel’s police recommended on Sunday that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be indicted in a string of corruption cases, according to an official document.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his wife, Aliza, were both questioned on Friday over a 2004 housing deal that is still being investigated.
Ehud Olmert’s announcement that he will step down from his party’s leadership may be hardly surprising given his corruption and poll ratings problems.
Whatever happens next, Binyamin Netanyahu — once the enfant terrible of Israeli politics — stands to gain.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s rivals jostled for Israel’s leadership on Thursday after he announced his decision to resign.
Israel’s beleaguered Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, threw his country into political turmoil on Wednesday night when he announced he was resigning.
Israeli police plan to question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert next week as part of an investigation that could force the Israeli leader out of office.
Controversial plans for the first new settlement to be built in the occupied West Bank in almost a decade have been revived by Israel.
Triumph or tragedy? This week’s prisoners-and-bodies exchange across the front lines of Israel’s last major war had elements of both.
Ehud Olmert’s lawyers began on Thursday the cross-examination of a US businessman who says he supplied the then mayor with cash-stuffed envelopes.
Israeli police say they suspect the Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, of ”serious fraud” after questioning him for a third time on Friday.
Israeli police said on Tuesday they will question Prime Minister Ehud Olmert again this week over a corruption scandal that has rocked his government.
The meeting was not supposed to be public. The man invited into Ehud Olmert’s residence was Aviam Sela, architect of Operation Opera in 1981.
Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert averts a major crisis by reaching agreement with his allies for them to reverse a decision on dissolving Parliament.
Israel kept three border crossings with the Gaza Strip closed on Wednesday following rocket attacks that breached a truce with Hamas rulers.
Israel carried out a large-scale military exercise earlier this month as a warning to Iran, Pentagon sources confirmed on Friday.
Gaza residents savoured a weekend of calm after months of bloodshed in the Palestinian enclave as a tenuous truce with Israel entered its second day.
A fragile truce between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas came into force in the Gaza Strip on Thursday.
Israeli forces killed a nine-year-old Palestinian girl and a militant in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets top ministers on Tuesday to weigh up a possible large-scale military offensive against the Gaza Strip to stop rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled territory.
An Israeli air strike killed a young Palestinian girl in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Thursday after an Israeli died in a militant cross-border mortar attack on a kibbutz.
Barely a year passes without a senior minister begging Ehud Olmert, the Israeli Prime Minister, to go. Last year the Foreign Minister, Tzipi Livni, called on Olmert to step down after the interim report of the Winograd commission on the Lebanese War. On Wednesday it was the turn of Defence Minister Ehud Barak.
Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak called on Wednesday for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to step aside over corruption allegations or face a collapse of his coalition that would disrupt peace talks with the Palestinians. This came a day after an American businessman told a court how he handed Olmert envelopes stuffed with thousands of dollars in cash.
Former United States president Jimmy Carter has said Israel holds at least 150 nuclear weapons, the first time a US president has publicly acknowledged the state’s atomic arsenal. Asked how a future US president should deal with the Iranian nuclear threat, Carter put the risk in context by listing atomic weapons held globally.
A United States businessman at the centre of a bribery case against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified on Tuesday he gave the Israeli leader cash-stuffed envelopes but without expecting any favours in return. ”I never expected anything personally. I never had any personal benefits from this relationship whatsoever,” Morris Talansky told court.