Former prime minister Ehud Olmert was expected to meet with former IDF chief of staff Lt.-Gen. (res) Gabi Ashkenazi on Thursday, Army Radio reported.
The meeting will likely be a consultation on whether Olmert should return to politics ahead of national elections in January, according to the report. Olmert has been reported to be courting Ashkenazi to join him in a Center-Left party that would challenge Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Likud. Ashkenazi can not legally run for the Knesset until his three year cooling off period ends.
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The State Attorney's Office placed a hurdle in front of Olmert's potential candidacy on Tuesday, when it announced that it would appeal his July acquittals in the corruption trial against him.
