Aliza Olmert

MARRIAGE RULES can be very confusing. Although there is no civil marriage here, civil marriages performed abroad are recognized, including those in…

Signs of Eli Yishai’s fealty to his Shas party’s spiritual leader, the 89-year-old Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, abound in the offices of the minister of the…

Aliza Olmert, former prime minister Ehud Olmert's wife, believes her husband will not be found guilty in the Holyland case, where he is being charged…

Cover story in Issue 26, April 13, 2009 of The Jerusalem Report. To subscribe to The Jerusalem Report click here. Rally for Gilad Shalit in…

In his Jerusalem dental clinic, Dr. Michel Rote has a beautiful, simple-line, Picasso-esque Dove of Peace sketch that faces his patients. It is…

IN ORTHODOX circles, the nameYitzhak Meir Helfgot is as iconic as that of any great opera singer or pop star in the secular world. A Ger Hassid with…

Yesterday in Manhattan, United States District Judge Denny Chin accepted Bernard Madoff's guilty plea on 11 felony charges: securities fraud,…

PURIM IS a time for gift giving. The gifts usually consist of candies, cookies and wine, but the gift that the children of Sderot received was a $5…

As Noam and Aviva Schalit spent their third day in a protest tent outside the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem on Tuesday, Israel was…

Noam and Aviva Schalit, parents of captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit, had a private meeting with President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem on Tuesday…

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's wife, Aliza Olmert, has invited captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit's parents, Noam and Aviva Schalit, to meet her at the…

IN TEL Aviv, there seems to be a greater deference to history than in Jerusalem, but that may be because Jerusalem as an ancient city, with numerous…

In a television interview, Aliza Olmert said that her husband, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, was "chased out of office."In an excerpt from a Channel 2…

SIXTIES NOSTALGIA is pervasive. Fashion designers have resurrected the sixties silhouettes. Beatles star Sir Paul McCartney will finally perform in…

Police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his wife, Aliza, for five hours on Friday morning at the premier's Jerusalem residence over his $1.2…

Police questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a seventh time on Friday in connection with one of the multiple corruption probes that have upset…

DIMONA MAYOR Meir Cohen has been busy organizing an unforgettable 85th birthday party for President Shimon Peres. Well known for his love of the…

A former employee of the Rishon Tours travel agency - which was implicated in a 1991 police investigation into the funding of a flight for Ehud…

'Stop! Closed military area," warns the writing on the wall. A few yards around the corner of the narrow alleyway, another sign pops up: "No…

Sotheby's is settling into its new home, a few weeks after moving from its landmark Tuscan-style villa in central Tel Aviv. The new building at 11…