First time Olmert's team admits: No need to punish Olmert harshly to deter him - "he's lost his world, he has no public future."
Abbas has made a strategic decision to raise the negotiating bar too high for any Israeli leader to contemplate.
Bill would double ‘cooling off ’ period to 14 years for pols found guilty of crimes involving moral turpitude.
The appeal is so old, it seems as if it has mysteriously disappeared.
If Olmert’s appeal is accepted, the points made by Avi-Yitzhak will be of major significance with regard to both the harshness of the sentence imposed on Olmert, and the character-assassinating terminology used by Judge David Rozen.
Israeli's react to the news that Olmert will serve 6 years in jail.
President Shimon Peres expresses sadness over Olmert's fate; settler group rejoices in his punishment, calling Olmert "satanic brain" of disengagement.
A potentially history-making national leader, Ehud Olmert was brought low by avarice and arrogance.
Court’s decision came following petition filed by the Movement for the Quality of Government in Israel to compel the state to cut a deal with Zaken.
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