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Ehud Olmert
אֶהוּד אוֹלְמֶרְט
Olmert in 2006
12th Prime Minister of Israel
In office 4 January 2006 – 31 March 2009 Acting: 4 January 2006 – 14 April 2006
President
Moshe Katsav Shimon Peres
Deputy
Tzipi Livni
Preceded by
Ariel Sharon
Succeeded by
Benjamin Netanyahu
Mayor of Jerusalem
In office 2 November 1993 – 16 February 2003
Preceded by
Teddy Kollek
Succeeded by
Uri Lupolianski
Personal details
Born
(1945-09-30) 30 September 1945 (age 78) Binyamina, Mandatory Palestine
Political party
Likud (1973–2006) Kadima (2006–2015)
Spouse
Aliza Olmert
Children
4 (including Shaul and Dana)
Alma mater
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ehud Olmert (/ˈoʊlmərt,-mɛərt/;[1] Hebrew: אֶהוּד אוֹלְמֶרְט, IPA:[eˈhudˈolmeʁt]ⓘ; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006. Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. After serving as prime minister, he was sentenced to serve a prison term over convictions for accepting bribes and for obstruction of justice during his terms as mayor of Jerusalem and as trade minister.
^"Olmert". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.
EhudOlmert (/ˈoʊlmərt, -mɛərt/; Hebrew: אֶהוּד אוֹלְמֶרְט, IPA: [eˈhudˈolmeʁt] ; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served...
led Operation Cast Lead in 2008–09 - and deputy prime minister under EhudOlmert and then in Benjamin Netanyahu's second government between 2007 and 2013...
social worker. She is married to former Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert. Aliza Olmert was born in a displaced persons camp in Eschwege, Germany. Her...
worker; wife of EhudOlmert Dana Olmert (born 1972), Israeli left-wing activist, literary theorist and editor; daughter of EhudOlmertEhudOlmert (born 1945)...
his successor as leader of Likud. Following Sharon's incapacitation, EhudOlmert replaced Sharon as Kadima's leader, for the nearing general elections...
Welfare and Social Services from 2007 to 2011 under prime ministers EhudOlmert and Benjamin Netanyahu. Herzog had served as Chairman of the Labor Party...
August 2005, and was soon joined by like-minded Labor politicians. With EhudOlmert as party chairman following Sharon's stroke, it became the largest party...
severe stroke on 4 January 2006, and being put under general anesthetic, EhudOlmert served as the Acting Prime Minister (Hebrew: ממלא מקום ראש הממשלה בפועל)...
suffered a stroke in January 2006, in the midst of election season, leading EhudOlmert to become acting prime minister in the weeks leading to the elections...
and Orthodox rabbi who co-founded the New Jerusalem Foundation with EhudOlmert, the Prime Minister of Israel. After graduating from Yeshiva University...
Minister EhudOlmert as leader of the Kadima party, and the failure of his successor, Tzipi Livni, to form a coalition government. Had Olmert remained...
following the discovery. Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert was notified. The following month, Olmert formed a three-member panel to report on Syria's...
support for EhudOlmert as Sharon's successor. Labor reportedly tried to woo Peres to rejoin them. However, he announced that he supported Olmert and would...
From 2001 to 2009, Livni served in the cabinets of Ariel Sharon and EhudOlmert, most notably as foreign minister, during which time she led multiple...
father is former Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert. He served in the Israeli Army. After his service, Olmert worked as a high school teacher in Jerusalem...
Gheit met with former Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, and Defense Minister Ehud Barak in Jerusalem on July 25, 2007, which...
peace process.[citation needed] In 1996, Netanyahu and Jerusalem's mayor EhudOlmert decided to open an exit in the Arab Quarter for the Western Wall Tunnel...
authenticated the documents, and a media adviser to Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert also affirmed their authenticity. Leaders of the Palestinian Authority...
Prime Minister EhudOlmert and former Mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolianski. Of the 13 defendants, three were acquitted and ten, including Olmert, were found...
also the father of EhudOlmert, who served as Prime Minister between 2006 and 2009. Born in Buguruslan in the Russian Empire, Olmert's family moved to Harbin...
weeks later during a joint press conference with Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert when the 2006 Lebanon War had broken out; the meaning of this phrase...
and introduced to the Israeli public by then acting prime minister, EhudOlmert, in a number of media interviews during the election campaign for the...
was suspending peace talks with Israel, while Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert vowed to press on with military operations against militants who have...
Conference, the negotiations were continued. Both Mahmoud Abbas and EhudOlmert presented each other with competing peace proposals. Ultimately no agreement...
Israeli political parties. On September 14, 2008, Israeli Prime Minister EhudOlmert, formerly of Likud, remarked that "Greater Israel is over. There is no...
figures. In a talk scheduled minutes after Katsav's speech, Prime Minister EhudOlmert called on him to resign from the presidency. Katsav took a three-month...
sentence with a death penalty on a number of Israeli politicians such as EhudOlmert, Ehud Barak, and Tzipi Livni. Wolpo is one of the leaders of the group of...