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Ehud Olmert

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Ehud Olmert

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Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009

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Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician, lawyer, and advocate who has served as Prime Minister of Israel, a member of the Knesset, and Mayor of Jerusalem. He is a member of the Kadima and Likud political parties. Born in 1945, he is the son of Mordechai Olmert and is married to Aliza Olmert. They have four children, including Dana Olmert. Olmert was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and speaks Hebrew and English.

His native language is Hebrew, and he has written in English. His notable works include *Poesía profética*, *Yerushalayim mi-kol ha-sibot sheba-ʻolam*, *Be-guf rishon*, *Searching for Peace*, and *Rise and Fall*. Olmert has been convicted of corruption. He resides and works in Jerusalem.

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1945
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Quotes

  • The formula for the parameters of a unilateral solution are: To maximize the number of Jews; to minimize the number of Palestinians; not to withdraw to the 1967 border and not to divide Jerusalem.
  • For thousands of years, we Jews have been nourished and sustained by a yearning for our historic land. I, like many others, was raised with a deep conviction that the day would never come when we would have to relinquish parts of the land of our forefathers. I believed and to this day still believe in our people's eternal and historic right to this entire land.
  • The day will come when the two-state solution collapses and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights. As soon as that happens, the state of Israel is finished. The Jewish organizations, which were our power base in America, will be the first to come out against us, because they will say they cannot support a state that does not support democracy and equal voting rights for all its residents.
  • What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians. It’s the result of government policy – knowingly, evilly, maliciously, irresponsibly dictated.

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Ehud Olmert (/ˈoʊlmərt, -mɛərt/; Hebrew: אֶהוּד אוֹלְמֶרְט, IPA: [eˈhud ˈolmeʁt] ; born 30 September 1945) is an Israeli politician and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009.

The son of a former Herut politician, Olmert was first elected to the Knesset for Likud in 1973, at the age of 28. Olmert served as a minister without portfolio from 1988 to 1990, and as Minister of Health from 1990 until 1992. In 1993, he was elected Mayor of Jerusalem. He served two consecutive five-year terms before returning to national politics in 2003 to serve as Designated Acting Prime Minister, Minister of Trade and Minister of Communications. Olmert also served as acting Minister of Finance from 2005 to 2006, following the resignation of incumbent minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ehud Olmert” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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