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Topic: Holyland

May 6, 2013
11:53 pm

Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (photo credit: Yossi Zelger/Flash90/File)

Olmert’s brother declared hostile witness

Yossi Olmert rescinds 2010 testimony about receiving payments from state witness Shmuel Dachner

By Times of Israel staff

April 9, 2013
6:24 pm

The pergolaed overlook at Ariel Sharon Park (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

The sweet smell of a garbage dump transformed

Until 2000, Israel was piling 3,000 tons of stinking household waste here every day. Now Ariel Sharon Park outside Tel Aviv is the country’s largest green space-in-the-making, to include a 50,000-seat amphitheater, picnic grounds and a lake

By Jessica Steinberg

December 8, 2012
8:51 pm

Former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks at the Ono Academic college on August 12, 2012. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/FLASH90)

Olmert: Livni and Mofaz are both ‘deserving’ of the post of prime minister

Former PM explains why he chose not make comeback, calls current Israeli leadership ‘extreme right-wing, garrulous and confrontational’

November 16, 2012
9:50 pm

Explosives experts examine the site where a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Gush Etzion on Friday. (photo credit: Oren Nahshon/Flash90)

Jerusalemites shaken, not stirred, by ‘surprise’ siren

Shrill air-raid alarm follows traditional Sabbath siren, startling residents of the capital; Mayor Barkat urges locals to keep calm

September 11, 2012
12:17 pm

Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman (photo credit: Flash90)

Avigdor Liberman denies he told Holyland state witness that Ehud Olmert was corrupt

Foreign minister says S.D.’s statements in court are ‘completely false’

By Ron Friedman and Times of Israel staff

September 10, 2012
2:14 pm

The state's witness, whose identity is under gag order, giving testimony in the Holyland trial last week. (photo credit: Roni Schutzer/Flash90)

Avigdor Liberman told me Ehud Olmert was corrupt, state’s witness claims

In key testimony at trial of former PM, witness S.D. tells court that bribery was the only way for the Holyland real estate project to advance

By Aaron Kalman

July 11, 2012
11:07 am

Olmert entering court on Tuesday. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

State to close illegal appointments case against Olmert

Prosecutors reportedly won’t seek jail term for former PM in Tuesday’s breach of trust conviction

By Stuart Winer and Joshua Davidovich

July 10, 2012
9:16 am

Ehud Olmert acquitted of two of three charges

Former prime minister convicted of breach of trust, avoids conviction in Rishon Tours and Talansky scandals