Justice ministry: Non-Olmert material seized in publisher raid will be returned

The Justice Ministry says it will disregard any information seized from the Yedioth Ahronoth publishing house that is not related to jailed former prime minister Ehud Olmert.

When police raided the Rishon Lezion publisher and confiscated pages from Olmert’s memoirs earlier today, they also reportedly grabbed material from two other manuscripts, one by former defense minister Moshe Ya’alon and a biography about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“In contrast to reports, no material will be reviewed that is not related to Olmert’s book,” the statement says. “No one will examine it or make any use of it.”

The justice ministry says “all remaining materials will be returned and no copy will be kept by police.”