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Olmert trials

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a press conference with US President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House on January 28, 2020, in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP)
January 29, 2020, 2:10 pm
Netanyahu in Dec. 2018: ‘You can’t bring a diplomatic plan on eve of election’
Footage emerges of PM vowing he won’t advance peace proposal during campaign season due to his legal woes, claiming that was the reason for his criticism of Olmert in 2008
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert is seen departing Maasiyahu Prison in Ramle on July 11, 2016, for his first leave from prison since he began his sentence in February. (Avi Dishi/Flash90)
June 1, 2017, 11:07 pm
Authorities said to open probe into papers Olmert smuggled from jail
Documents said related to ex-PM’s memoirs regarding 2007 bombing of Syrian nuclear reactor and Ariel Sharon’s stroke
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) arrives at the Ma'asiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle on February 15, 2016 as he begins a 19-month term for bribery and obstruction of justice (AFP / JACK GUEZ)
May 21, 2017, 8:58 pm
Olmert: They never told me I couldn’t send documents from jail
Israel Prisons Service says former PM barred from lawyer visits after failing to heed warning about classified documents
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 29, 2015. (Amit Shabi/Pool)
May 20, 2017, 10:56 pm
Olmert loses prison privileges after classified info discovery
Authorities investigate imprisoned ex-premier’s handling of alleged secret information as he writes memoir from his cell; Olmert denies wrongdoing
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert addresses Israelis in a video released hours before he was slated to begin serving out his prison sentence, on Monday, February 2, 2016. (screen capture: YouTube)
May 19, 2017, 9:28 pm
Olmert attorney caught with classified material from jailed former PM — report
Authorities investigating imprisoned ex-premier’s handling of secret information as he writes memoir from his cell; Olmert denies wrongdoing
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/POOL)
May 17, 2017, 10:32 pm
Parole board report said to raise chance of Olmert’s early release
Despite positive portrayal of ex-PM’s prison conduct, separate opinion says he has not expressed full remorse for his crimes
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)
March 27, 2017, 3:18 pm
President refuses pardon for convicted ex-prime minister Olmert
Rivlin says he can’t reconsider former premier’s jail term in light of his public standing as court already took that into account
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2017. (Amit Shabi/POOL)
January 19, 2017, 3:27 pm
Legal path to depose PM is tortuous, but indictment would likely end his career
By law, Netanyahu can only be fired if convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude; precedent indicates he’d be ousted long before it came to that
By Raphael Ahren
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert leaves the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court on February 10, 2016. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)
September 28, 2016, 1:54 pm
Former PM Olmert to serve 8 more months in jail
‘It’s all over,’ says Supreme Court justice after rejecting Olmert’s appeal against conviction and sentence in Talansky affair
By Sue Surkes
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 29, 2015. (Amit Shabi/Pool)
March 29, 2016, 12:29 am
Prisons Service denies Olmert’s request for DVDs in prison
Former premier serving 18-month sentence for graft; officials vow to treat him like any other prisoner
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) arrives at Ma'asiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle on February 15, 2016 as he begins serving a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice. (AFP/Jack Guez)
February 19, 2016, 1:14 pm
Most Israelis want Olmert to serve full sentence
Poll shows 82% of Israelis oppose shortening of term or pardon for former PM, who began a 19-month prison sentence this week
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert enters prison to begin his sentence, in the central Israeli town of Ramle, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 15, 2016, 2:37 pm
Dawn roll call, prison food: Olmert’s new life
Former PM began serving a 19-month term in a special cell block that sports a synagogue, library, dining room and yard
By AFP
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert (L) arrives at Ma'asiyahu Prison in the central Israeli city of Ramle on February 15, 2016 as he begins serving a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice. (AFP/Jack Guez)
February 15, 2016, 9:59 am
Ehud Olmert, former prime minister, goes to prison
Before entering Ma’asiyahu for 19 months, Israel’s first ex-premier to go to jail proclaims his innocence
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert addresses Israelis in a video released hours before he was slated to begin serving out his prison sentence, on Monday, February 2, 2016 (screen capture: YouTube)
February 15, 2016, 9:07 am
Ahead of departure for prison, Olmert denies he took bribes
In a taped video message, disgraced former prime minister says he accepts sentence with a ‘very heavy heart’
By ToI Staff
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert speaks to the press at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on December 29, 2015. (Amit Shabi/Pool)
February 15, 2016, 3:21 am
Former PM Olmert to report to prison Monday morning
Sentenced to 19 months for taking bribes and obstructing justice, he spends his last day of freedom with friends and family
By ToI Staff
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