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CNN
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told a powerful parliamentary panel Monday that Israel rejects "no options" to block Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, a meeting participant said. The statement was the Israeli leader's clearest indication yet that he is will..
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SF Gate
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in interviews published Friday that Israel would not allow a single Palestinian refugee to return to what is now Israel, and that the country bore no responsibility for the refugees because their plight resulted from an att..
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MSNBC
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wound up a weekend trip to spur Israeli-Palestinian talks with a one-on-one meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert Monday morning, and Olmert was scheduled to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas later in t..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has warned that the withdrawal of troops from Gaza does not mean Israel's military operation there is over.
Israeli forces pulled out overnight, several days after entering Gaza to try to suppress rocket fire. The ope..
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BBC News
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A long-awaited final report into Israel's conduct of the 2006 war in Lebanon is due to be published.
Hostilities broke out in July 2006, when the Lebanese Islamist Hezbollah group captured two Israeli soldiers.
In the month-long conflict that follow..
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BBC News
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The Palestinian and Israeli leaders are preparing for talks to try to stop the peace process being overshadowed by a row over Jewish settlement activity.
Mahmoud Abbas will press Ehud Olmert to halt settlement construction plans in Israeli-occupied Eas..
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Yahoo News
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JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday played down expectations for an upcoming U.S.-sponsored peace summit, saying the gathering would not produce a binding peace agreement with the Palestinians and might not even take place.
Speaking to a..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas have begun what is being seen as a key meeting in Jerusalem.
The two are trying to prepare a programme for next month's US-sponsored Middle East conference.
But the..
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SF Gate
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas broached issues at the heart of the Middle East conflict Tuesday during a session intended to generate momentum for a U.S.-sponsored peace conference this fall, aides sai..
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BBC News
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The Israeli and Palestinian leaders are holding talks in Jerusalem, the latest in a series to bolster Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian government.
The meetings are at Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office, involving teams of negotiators before one-on-one talk..
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Al Jazeera
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Abbas and Olmert have been meeting regularly for several months, last meeting in Jericho on August 6, but few concrete results have emerged from the summits.
'False promises'
Walid Batrawi, Al Jazeera's correspondent in the West Bank, said Palesti..
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SF Gate
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Ehud Olmert ventured into the West Bank on Monday to discuss the most divisive issues of a possible peace settlement, the first visit by an Israeli prime minister to Palestinian territory in seven years.
The Israeli leader said he met with Palestinian..
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FOX News
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Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to talk about the creation of a Palestinian state...
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BBC News
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Talks between Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank have been described by both sides as "constructive".
Broad principles for establishing a Palestinian state were discussed but no significant progress was anno..
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BBC News
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Hundreds of protesters in Israel have marched outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office to demand more state support for Holocaust survivors.
A government offer of a monthly stipend of $20 (�10) was labelled "insulting" by the survivor groups that..
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BBC News
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Representatives of Israel's 250,000 Holocaust survivors are to demand more state support in a protest outside Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's house.
A government offer of a monthly stipend of $20 (�10) was rejected as too little by survivor groups, and..
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BBC News
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Israel plans to release 250 Palestinian prisoners in a gesture Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says will boost moderate elements among the Palestinians.
Israel's cabinet approved the move and a final list of prisoners - all linked to Palestinian President M..
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Alter Net
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Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sound more smug than usual after Fatah's overthrow in Gaza. It appears that a drastic and deadly new strategy to isolate Palestinians and use other Arab countries as enforcers has been unveiled.
Nazareth -- T..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he plans to release 250 jailed members of the Fatah movement led by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
He announced the "goodwill gesture" at a summit in Egypt, attended by Mr Abbas and the leaders of Egypt and Jo..
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Al Jazeera
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Olmert said: "I am going to make every possible effort to move forward to see how things can be worked jointly, in order to provide Palestinians a real, genuine chance for a state of their own."He had said earlier this week he was ready to renew regular c..
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