Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert in Tel Aviv. August 8, 2024. (photo credit: TOMER NEUBERG/FLASH90) “I believe the ...

He is a former leader in the rightist Likud Party who for decades staunchly believed that the West Bank and Gaza Strip belonged to the Jewish people and that the territories, along with the Golan ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert testifies during a hearing of the civil investigative committee on the October 7 ...

It was an unlikely, even desperate courtship, born of one partner’s need and an opportunity for the other. But despite the warnings and protests of skeptics, Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has ...

The charges likely end the three-decade career of a man who just three years ago seemed poised to lead his nation to a bold withdrawal from the West Bank and an aggressive push for peace with the ...

JERUSALEM -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced Monday to eight months in prison for unlawfully accepting money from a U.S. supporter, capping the downfall of a man who only a few ...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert may be indicted over suspicion of receiving illicit funds from New York millionaire Morris Talansky, Attorney General Menachem Mazuz told Olmert’s legal team Sunday. The ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert about Benjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war in Gaza. To further discuss Israel's planned invasion of Rafah, we're joined by ...

Exclusive: Guardian analysis of settler violence shows no Israelis prosecuted since 2020 for killing Palestinian civilians, as former military, police and spy chiefs describe ‘organised Jewish terrori ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of Ehud Olmert, former prime minister of Israel. Olmert grew up in Nahalat Jabotinsky, a village that was later incorporated into Binyamina. Elected mayor of ...

After years of failed deals and tit-for-tat violence, neither the Israelis nor the Palestinians believe their adversaries will ever negotiate in good faith. By Lara Jakes It would take an eight- or 10 ...

Not unusually for a head of state, Ehud Olmert hankered for a legacy, and the contours of an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement may yet bear his mark. But another first attached to Olmert may be one ...