# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ehud-olmert
# Generated: 2026-09-01T19:07:30.018Z

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description: "He led Israel through an inconclusive war in Lebanon, pursued peace talks with the Palestinians, then left the prime minister's office under the weight of corruption charges that would later send him to prison."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1945 to a Herut politician, Olmert entered the Knesset for Likud at 28 in 1973, served stints as health minister and minister without portfolio, then won Jerusalem's mayoralty in 1993 for two consecutive terms. He returned to national politics in 2003, climbing to acting finance minister before joining Ariel Sharon's dramatic 2005 exit from Likud to form Kadima. When Sharon suffered a debilitating stroke in January 2006, Olmert stepped in as acting prime minister, then won the leadership and formed a government that March. His term brought the 2006 Lebanon War, whose inconclusive end and his handling of it drew harsh rebuke from the Winograd Commission and tanked his approval; he pursued peace negotiations including the 2007 Annapolis Conference, which collapsed with the 2009 Gaza War. He resigned in 2008 amid the corruption probe that would later convict him of bribery and obstruction of justice, earning six years in prison before his 2017 parole.