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/ 27 October 2008
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.
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/ 26 October 2008
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni was expected to announce her failure to form a new government on Sunday and call for snap general elections.
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/ 24 October 2008
Israel came closer to early elections on Friday when the Shas party said it would not join a coalition led by Israeli premier-designate Tzipi Livni.
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/ 23 September 2008
A Palestinian rammed his car into a group of soldiers in Jerusalem on Monday, as Foreign Minster Tzipi Livni worked towards a new government.
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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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/ 20 September 2008
One of Tzipi Livni’s greatest challenges will be to restore some integrity to the tainted Israeli political system, writes Rory McCarthy.
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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.
Israel’s beleaguered Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, threw his country into political turmoil on Wednesday night when he announced he was resigning.
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni publicly acknowledged on Tuesday she had been an agent for the Mossad spy agency.
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.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday pressed Israel to ease travel restrictions on Palestinians and called Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank ”particularly problematic”. But she said Washington believed an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal was still possible before US President George Bush leaves office in January.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday Israel and the Palestinians had agreed to resume peace talks suspended over an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip. Signalling a willingness by Israel to hold fire, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said there would not be further attacks on Gaza if Palestinian militants stop rocket salvoes.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel for using ”excessive” force in the Gaza Strip and demanded a halt to its offensive after troops killed 61 people on the bloodiest day for Palestinians since the 1980s. The 1,5-million Palestinians crammed into the blockaded, 45km sliver of coast, enjoyed a relative respite early on Sunday from Israeli air strikes and raids.
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/ 7 February 2008
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas offered to help negotiate a ceasefire as Israel pounded Gaza on Thursday, killing seven people days after a suicide bombing claimed by Hamas rulers. Hamas promptly rejected the offer, with spokesperson Fawzi Barhum branding it a ”blackmail attempt against the Palestinian people”.
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/ 18 December 2007
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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/ 26 November 2007
United States President George Bush meets Palestinian and Israeli leaders on Monday in a last-ditch push for Palestinian statehood before he leaves office in 14 months. Expectations are low for three days of talks because Bush, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas all face political challenges at home.
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/ 29 October 2007
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.