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NEWS ABOUT: Ehud Olmert

Ehud Olmert stories: 137 news summaries

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Israel to Release 250 Fatah Prisoners

PM Olmert makes pledge at summit
with Arab leaders

Jun 25, 07 4:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel plans to free 250 Fatah members as part of an international push to shore up Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, the Washington Post reports.The announcement came at the close of a summit at a Red Sea resort, where Mideast leaders gathered to talk about dealing with Hamas in the... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Palestinian civil war • West Bank

Israel Frees Up Palestinian Funds

Unfreezing of tax revenues reflects support for Abbas

Jun 24, 07 4:52 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a show of support for Mahmoud Abbas, Israel will release about half of the tax revenue withheld from the Palestinian government since 2006. The Israeli parliament authorized the unfreezing of some $350 million today, making the release of the rest of the funds contingent on the progress of the... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Mahmoud Abbas • Hamas • Fatah • Palestinian civil war

Egypt Will Host Mideast Summit

Abbas and Olmert to meet in effort to isolate Hamas

Jun 21, 07 6:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alarmed by the Hamas takeover in Gaza, Egypt will host a summit Monday, bringing together the Western-backed Palestinian president and the Israeli PM, along with Jordanian and Egyptian leaders, Reuters reports. The move is a show of support for the moderate Mamoud Abbas-led emergency government, and an effort to isolate... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Middle East • King Abdullah • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Hosni Mubarak • Egypt • Palestinian civil war • West Bank

US Eyes Blair as
Mideast Envoy

Soon-to-be-former PM would focus on groundwork for a Palestinian state

Jun 21, 07 7:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Outgoing British PM Tony Blair may step into a new role as a Mideast envoy focusing on the development of a viable Palestinian state, the Washington Post reports. Blair would concentrate on economic and governance issues; he would represent the quartet of world players involved in Mideast peace efforts—the... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Russia • Tony Blair • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Condoleezza Rice • United States

Bush, Olmert Meet on Palestine

Israel considers picking up peace process as US resumes aid

Jun 19, 07 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush and Israeli PM Ehud Olmert will convene today to discuss future relations with a newly divided Palestine. The US has resumed aid to Mahmoud Abbas' moderate Fatah government, now balkanized from its militant Hamas rivals, and Olmert has signaled his a potential willingness to push peace negotiations by... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Mahmoud Abbas • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • West Bank • George W. Bush

Israel Plans Attack on Gaza

Olmert government making plans for military action to destroy Hamas

Jun 18, 07 4:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli government is readying its army for an invasion of Gaza, in the wake of Hamas' victory in last week's civil war against Fatah there. The London Times, quoting Israeli military sources, says defense minister apparent Ehud Barak has drawn up plans for an incursion with 20,000 troops,... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Ehud Olmert • Gaza • Palestine • Hamas • Fatah • Ehud Barak • West Bank • Hamastan

Israel's Parliament Elects Peres President

83-year-old former PM vows to unite country

Jun 13, 07 12:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Knesset voted in Vice Premier Shimon Peres as president of Israel today, after his two rivals for the office dropped out. Peres, a former PM and Nobel laureate, says his job is to unite Israeli society and "expel despair from our midst." He follows Moshe Katsav, who... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Kadima Party • Shimon Peres • Moshe Katsav • Knesset • Israeli Labor Party • Ariel Sharon • David Ben Gurion

Israeli Labor Party Picks Barak to Lead

Former PM will join cabinet, sets sight on top job again

Jun 13, 07 5:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Barak won a runoff election yesterday making him head of Israel's Labor Party once again. Barak, who edged out former Shin Bet boss Ari Ayalon, will join PM Ehud Olmert's coalition cabinet, probably as defense minister. But the Guardian reports that the serial party chief is widely expected to... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Ehud Barak • Benjamin Netanyahu • Israeli Labor Party • Shin Bet • Ari Ayalon • Ariel Sharon • Likud

Israel Cautiously Invites Syria to the Table

Olmert denounces war, hints back-door deals may end in peace talks

Jun 7, 07 10:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Israel's PM deflected fears of a war with Syria today, and fueled semi-official rumors that peace talks are going on furtively between the two hostile countries. Olmert says he wants a sitdown with Syria—which would be the first in seven years—but warned president Assad that talks would not... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad • Hamas • Hezbollah • war

Israel Votes Out Labor Leader

Peretz loses to Olmert critics; party threatens to quit government

May 29, 07 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert was the biggest loser as the Israeli Labor party yesterday ousted its current leader, Defense Minister Amir Peretz, in favor of  two stauncher critics of Israel's uneasy coalition government. The vote yielded a runoff between former PM Ehud Barak and former Shin Bet chief Ami Ayalon, both of... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Ehud Barak • Israeli Labor Party • Amir Peretz • Ami Ayalon

Israelis Rally for Olmert Ouster

May 4, 07 7:45 AM CDT
(Newser) - A massive demonstration in Tel Aviv yesterday amplified the cry for Israel's PM Ehud Olmert to resign. Tens of thousands of Israelis packed into Rabin Square to denounce Olmert's handling of last year's Lebanon War, in the wake of the highly critical Winograd Commission report. Polls are showing three quarters... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Tzipi Livni • Kadima • rally • Winograd

Deputy PM Wants Olmert Out

May 3, 07 7:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel's foreign minister has called on Ehud Olmert to resign, the highest ranking Kadima party official to call for his ouster. Tzipi Livni, who also serves as deputy prime minister, says she's prepared to stand to replace Olmert in the wake of the damning Winograd report. But the majority of... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • Winograd Report • Tzipi Livni • Knesset • Kadima

Report on Lebanon War Slams Olmert

Israeli cabinet member resigns, urges embattled PM to follow

May 1, 07 7:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Israel’s investigation into last summer’s bungled war in Lebanon has produced a firestorm of  criticism directed at Ehud Olmert, who is now fighting for his political survival. The Winograd Commission’s initial report accused the prime minister of “supreme and comprehensive personal responsibility” for the war’s... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Winograd Report • Kadima • Winograd • Eitan Cabel

Olmert Braces For Possible Summer Ouster

Report critical of Lebanon war may
doom Israeli PM

Apr 30, 07 7:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert may be forced out of office to avoid dragging the Kadima party down with him, Haaretz reports. Quoting a senior party official, the newspaper says the Israeli Prime Minister may resign this summer as part of the fallout from a government report on the run-up to and conduct... More »

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Israel • Middle East • Lebanon • Ehud Olmert • Lebanon War • Hezbollah • war • Kadima

Israel Begs to Differ
With Pelosi Statement

PM's office distances itself from
speaker's promise of talks

Apr 5, 07 10:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Israeli PM is backing off from Nancy Pelosi's suggestion yesterday that an Israeli-Syrian summit is in the offing. Pelosi told reporters that she had conveyed to  Syria's Bashar al-Assad a message that Ehud Olmert was "ready to engage in peace talks." Olmert's office quickly responded that it... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Israel • Middle East • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad

Pelosi Says Syria Is Ready for Peace Talks

House Speaker ends US boycott and meets with Syrian president

Apr 4, 07 10:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Syria is ready to resume peace talks with Israel, based on her meeting with President Bashar al-Assad, the BBC reports. Flying in the face of Bush's Syrian boycott, Pelosi and a congressional delegation are in Damascus meeting with top leaders. Bush said the visit undermined... More »

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Nancy Pelosi • Israel • Syria • Ehud Olmert • Bashar al Assad • George W. Bush

Olmert Offers Talks With
Arab Leaders

Cites Saudi peace
plan as positive step

Apr 2, 07 1:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ehud Olmert says he's keen for multilateral talks with Arab leaders, after a Saudi summit last week produced the outlines of a peace plan, Haaretz reports. "The readiness to accept Israel as a fact and to debate the terms of a future solution is a step that... More »

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Palestinian Authority • Israel • Middle East • Saudi Arabia • politics • Angela Merkel • Ehud Olmert • Palestine

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