Ehud Olmert News

National Union MKs on Monday warned against releasing terrorists in order to free captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit.

A'Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert trusted Turkey, but Netanyahu doesn't trust us.

The Corruption Perceptions Index published last week by Transparency International ranks Israel in a not very good position, with a score of 6.1, similar to its grade in previous years.

Former Israel politician and author Natan Sharansky called for a strong Jewish identity and universal human rights at a speech at Ida Noyes Monday.

Benjamin Netanyahu at the Mount of Olive overlooking the The Dome of the Rock in the Old city of Jerusalem in February 2009.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defied a barrage of calls to resign on Friday after he admitted taking cash from an American businessman at the centre of a police inquiry into allegations of bribery.

DAMASCUS // When Bashar Assad, the Syrian president, asked for increased French efforts to restart the Middle East peace process during his recent visit to Paris, he must have done so knowing there was nothing meaningful France could do.

The Jews of Israel are facing a cruel dilemma. They came home to find peace and safety in their homeland of Israel; to find an end to that vulnerable status of a perpetual wandering minority; an end to exile, alienation, and powerlessness; and the beginning of a normal national existence.

Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman called on Monday for direct talks with Damascus, two days before his meeting with French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, whose country has worked to jump-start negotiations on the Syrian track.

Syrian President Bashar Assad on Friday rejected Israel's call for direct peace talks but said he was prepared to resume indirect negotiations mediated by Turkey.

"All the feelings that we've been through came back to me, tears simply fell from my eyes," said Miriam Avraham, who lost her daughter Alona in the New York City World Trade Center attack eight years ago.

A damning United Nations report on Israel's winter offensive against Hamas in Gaza is being used to attack Israel by "self-righteous and hypocritical" groups, former prime minister Ehud Olmert said on Thursday.

Israeli politicians and diplomats expressed surprise over Gov. Jon Corzine's loss to Republican Chris Christie in last Tuesday's New Jersey gubernatorial election.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak said about a year ago that "terrorists' homes should be destroyed shortly after the attack in order to deter potential terrorists." He made the remark after another bulldozer attack carried out by an east Jerusalem resident.

The Prime Minister's Office and the Finance Ministry are looking into buying a plane, the Israeli equivalent of Air Force One, to serve Israeli leaders on their official trips around the world.

Protracted passivity Sir, - I commend Daniel Friedmann on his excellent analysis of the Goldstone Report .

PFLP: "Shut down the war criminals wherever they go!" From a statement by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine "Protests have recently greeted the leaders and representatives of the occupation state wherever they have traveled - former occupation prime minister and war criminal Ehud Olmert has been chased from city to city, shouted ...

The Obama Administration's bid to relaunch an Israeli-Palestinian peace process is falling apart faster than you can say settlement freeze - in no small part because President Obama began his effort by saying settlement freeze .

On Sunday evening at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown Washington, D.C., J-Street opened its first ever-national policy conference.

Palestinian leaders angrily dismissed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's praise for Israel on Sunday, openly questioning her ability to jumpstart peace talks just hours after she left Israel.