Hawkish frontrunner Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday vowed he would smash Hamas if he becomes Israel’s prime minister after next week’s elections.

Israel’s corruption-tainted Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, will formally resign on Sunday, Israel Radio reported.

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 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…