Ehud Olmert
Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 · Israel · Politicians · Born 1945 · age 81
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Something wrong?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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A delegation of the two main political parties, Labour and Likud, arrive for talks with the President of Israel Yitzhak Navon, in Jerusalem (FL45857359).jpg?width=1200)
A delegation of the two main political parties, Labour and Likud, arrive for talks with the President of Israel Yitzhak Navon, in Jerusalem (FL45857399).jpg?width=1200)
A delegation of the two main political parties, Labour and Likud, arrive for talks with the President of Israel Yitzhak Navon, in Jerusalem (FL45857442).jpg?width=1200)
A delegation of the two main political parties, Labour and Likud, arrive for talks with the President of Israel Yitzhak Navon, in Jerusalem (FL63618020)In their own words 6
, What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians.
When we saw that the Secretary of State, for reasons we did not really understand, wanted to vote in favor of the U.N. resolution...
The day will come when the two-state solution collapses and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights.
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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.
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