Ehud Olmert News

Benjamin Netanyahu had a great deal of luck during the first 100 days of his second term as prime minister.

Reports in the Israeli media this week suggest that Israel is looking forward to participation in several key exercises and operation with NATO and individual NATO members during the remainder of 2009.

A controversy is brewing in Israel over whether Saudi Arabia has tacitly agreed to allow Israel to use its airspace in any potential future attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

Mossad head Meir Dagan assured Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that Saudi Arabia would allow Israeli Air Force jets to fly over their kingdom during any future raid on Iran's nuclear facilities, The Sunday Times reported on Sunday.

Under international pressure to make peace with Lebanon and domestic pressure to defeat Hezbollah, Israel moved in both directions Saturday.

The government of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu still hasn't offered anything in return for the release of kidnapped IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit, a senior Hamas official in the Gaza Strip said on Sunday.

Ahead of Defense Minister Ehud Barak's visit to Washington next week, senior political sources have said that Israel will have to change its tune with regard to the problem of 'natural growth' in settlements.

The 2009 election results in Israel indicate that right-wing votes have increased remarkably, and that the center-left and left have lost one third of their combined representational power.

Despite efforts by former prime minister Ehud Olmert to prevent Morris Talansky from resuming the pretrial testimony he began last year, the US businessman, who has admitted giving Olmert large sums of money, is to return to the witness stand Sunday in Jerusalem District Court.

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FORMER PRIME Minister Ehud Olmert called to Tel Aviv from New York to express appreciation for everything the person on the other end of the line had done for Israel over the years.

Israel marked the third anniversary Thursday of the capture of an Israeli soldier by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, with no new information on the plight of the young man and few signs of progress in efforts to bring him home.

Israeli courts sentenced two former Cabinet ministers convicted of corruption charges to yearslong prison terms.

The government has sent messages to several Arab states recently, seeking to counter negative reactions to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech on Sunday and asking them to pressure Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resume negotiations with Israel.

Palestinian sources have estimated that the chance for progress in the negotiations on a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hamas has increased due to heavy Egyptian pressure.

The father of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit leveled rare criticism at former prime minister Ehud Olmert on Saturday evening over his handling of negotiations to secure his son's release.

The current impasse in the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations cannot continue, as "the situation is taking a toll too heavy for Israel," Intelligence Affairs Minister Dan Meridor said on Thursday.

As Iran continues to grab the headlines coming out of the Middle East, the Obama Administration is said to be quietly pushing Israel to soften its stance on Gaza to relax its vice-like grip on the border crossings, in order to ease the growing humanitrian crisis.

After two months of intense American pressure, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finally uttered the magic words: two states for two peoples.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's positive response to U.S. President Barack Obama's Cairo speech has deeper Israeli domestic implications than just an endorsement of a Palestinian state with limited sovereignty.