Each of the last four prime ministers has been investigated for corruption. A previous president and two former chief rabbis have been convicted.
Netanyahu maintains that the case against him is “full of holes, like Swiss cheese.” But that’s what his predecessor said too, and he was convicted.
Peres was never able to realize the elusive goal of peace, but he utilized the presidency in other pro-active ways.
Ehud Olmert served 16 months after being convicted of graft. He was the first Israeli Prime Minister to be jailed.
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, currently serving a 27-month prison sentence for corruption, was rushed to the hospi…
JERUSALEM — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has been punished by the Israel Prison Service after classified documents were found …
JERUSALEM — Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin rejected a pardon request from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is currently serving a 27-month prison sentence for corruption. Rivlin officially rejected the request on Monday. The request was filed in late January. Olmert entered prison, continuing to proclaim his innocence, in February 2016. “The pardoning…
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, currently serving a 27-month prison sentence for corruption, has requested a pardon from the country’s president. President Reuven Rivlin’s office confirmed that a pardon request had been received from Olmert and that it would be sent to the Justice Ministry for consideration, as are all pardon…
Why do my readers keep insisting, despite the facts, that ‘Palestinians are totally opposed to any solution which allows Israel to continue’?
Israel’s top court slashed former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s prison sentence to 18 months from six years on Tuesday after overturning the main count in his 2014 bribery conviction.