Kadima

/ 27 February 2009

Last-ditch effort for broad Israel govt collapses

Last-ditch efforts to form a broad-based Israeli coalition failed on Friday, fuelling concerns about prospects for peace with the Palestinians.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 27 February 2009

Netanyahu meets Livni in fresh bid for coalition govt

Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu was making a fresh bid on Friday to persuade Tzipi Livni to bring her centrist Kadima party into an Israeli coalition.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 25 February 2009

Israel’s Netanyahu kicks off coalition talks

Benjamin Netanyahu, the hawkish leader of Israel’s Likud party, has not given up hope of forging a broad coalition government.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 20 February 2009

Israel picks Netanyahu to form government

Right-wing leader Benjamin Netanyahu will be asked to form the next Israeli government, the office of President Shimon Peres said on Friday.

By Joseph Nasr

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/ 19 February 2009

Israel’s Peres to pick government by Monday

The Israeli president was to hold talks with party officials on Thursday and decide within four days who will be tasked with forming a new government.

By Patrick Moser

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/ 16 February 2009

Kadima rules out joining extreme right-wing coalition

As Israeli leaders tried to break their deadlock on Sunday, a senior figure in the Kadima party said they would not join a right-wing government.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 13 February 2009

Israel braced for weeks of political uncertainty

Final results confirmed the Kadima party narrowly won the election but suggested Likud is better placed to form a government.

By Patrick Moser

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/ 11 February 2009

Disarray as Israeli election rivals claim victory

Israel faced on Wednesday what could be weeks of political uncertainty after an election that ended with clashing claims of victory.

By Dan Williams and Jeffrey Heller

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/ 26 January 2009

Netanyahu maintains edge in Israel election race

Front-runner Benjamin Netanyahu has moved quickly to deflect allegations his victory could mean conflict with new US President Barack Obama.

By Jeffrey Heller

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/ 27 October 2008

Election looms for Israel as Livni fails to broker coalition

Israel looked set on Sunday for a general election after the prime minister designate, Tzipi Livni, failed to broker a deal with the religious right.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 26 October 2008

Israel’s Livni to call for early general elections

Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was expected to announce her failure to form a new government on Sunday and call for snap general elections.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 16 September 2008

Israel’s ruling party to choose new leader

Members of Israel’s ruling Kadima party is choosing a new leader on Wednesday to replace discredited Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 29 May 2008

Olmert: From high life to low ebb

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.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 12 May 2008

Olmert faces growing public mistrust over bribe scandal

Public mistrust is mounting against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, with an opinion poll on Monday showing a majority of Israelis think he should resign over a new probe into corruption allegations. Fifty-nine percent of Israelis want Olmert to step down, according to the survey published by the Yediot Aharonot newspaper.

By Charly Wegman

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/ 9 May 2008

Olmert resists calls to quit over bribery probe

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert faced a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police investigation into suspected bribery. But Olmert, whose departure could disrupt peace negotiations with the Palestinians, continued with his duties.

By Avida Landau

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/ 2 May 2008

Israeli PM questioned over alleged corruption

Israel’s fraud squad on Friday questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has been dogged by corruption scandals that surfaced after he took office in 2006, police said. The investigators, led by the head of the National Fraud Squad, Lieutenant Commander Shlomi Ayalon, questioned Olmert in his Jerusalem residence.

By Staff Reporter

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/ 11 April 2008

Israel sends tanks, bulldozers into Gaza

Israeli tanks and bulldozers crossed into the Gaza Strip on Friday after the Jewish state warned it would retaliate against Hamas for a deadly explosion of violence earlier this week. Ten tanks and two armoured bulldozers entered 1km into Gaza, west of the Bureij refugee camp, drawing heavy fire from militants.

By Adel Zaanoun

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/ 4 March 2008

Israel continues Gaza strikes after deadly blitz

Israeli war planes on Tuesday carried out raids on the north of the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinians and wounding two others, a Palestinian medical source said. Israel had vowed on Monday to keep hitting Gaza, even as troops pulled out of the Hamas-run territory after clashes that killed more than 120 Palestinians and dealt a blow to peace talks.

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/ 18 December 2007

Donors pledge billions in aid for Palestinians

Palestinians were given a powerful signal of international and Arab support for an independent state on Monday night, with ,4-billion in aid to revive their moribund economy and bolster renewed but faltering peace negotiations with Israel.

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/ 29 October 2007

Israel PM diagnosed with prostate cancer

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced on Monday he has been diagnosed with prostate cancer requiring surgery but vowed to stay in office, confident of a full recovery. ”Following the results of a regular check-up, I was diagnosed with initial signs of prostate cancer,” the 62-year-old prime minister told a packed news conference in Jerusalem.

By Marius Schattner

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/ 3 October 2007

Abbas, Olmert aim to bridge gaps in new talks

Israeli and Palestinian leaders held a new round of talks on Wednesday, meeting for the first time with their negotiating teams to try to bridge gaping differences ahead of a United States-sponsored peace summit. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas met one-on-one for the fourth time in less than two months.

By Ron Bousso

Last-ditch effort for broad Israel govt collapses

Netanyahu meets Livni in fresh bid for coalition govt

Israel’s Netanyahu kicks off coalition talks

Israel picks Netanyahu to form government

Israel’s Peres to pick government by Monday

Kadima rules out joining extreme right-wing coalition

Israel braced for weeks of political uncertainty

Disarray as Israeli election rivals claim victory

Netanyahu maintains edge in Israel election race

Election looms for Israel as Livni fails to broker coalition

Israel’s Livni to call for early general elections

Israel’s ruling party to choose new leader

Olmert: From high life to low ebb

Olmert faces growing public mistrust over bribe scandal

Olmert resists calls to quit over bribery probe

Israeli PM questioned over alleged corruption

Israel sends tanks, bulldozers into Gaza

Israel continues Gaza strikes after deadly blitz

Donors pledge billions in aid for Palestinians

Israel PM diagnosed with prostate cancer

Abbas, Olmert aim to bridge gaps in new talks

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