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BBC News
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Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to take a leave of absence or resign as he battles allegations of corruption.
Mr Barak said he would take his Labor Party out of Mr Olmert's governing coalition if he did not..
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SF Gate
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Israel's defense minister issued a tough ultimatum to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday, saying he would use his considerable power to topple the coalition government if the Israeli leader does not step aside to face corruption allegations.
The c..
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SF Gate
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Seeking Arab nations' support for an American peace initiative, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert won his government's approval Monday to free 441 Palestinian prisoners and reaffirmed a pledge to tear down dozens of unauthorized Jewish settlement outpost..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said he will have surgery for prostate cancer, but he added it had been caught early and he would remain in office.
Mr Olmert, 62, has led Israel since 2006 when Ariel Sharon had a massive stroke that has left him..
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www.dailystar.com.lb
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced a new $30 billion US defense package to Israel Sunday and voiced satisfaction over Washington's plan to supply state-of-the-art weapons to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states as a counterweight to Iranian influence. The..
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CNN
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his country would be a "genuine partner" of a new Palestinian government and promised to consider releasing hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen tax funds.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud..
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Houston Chronicle
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began a five-day trip to the United States on Sunday, armed with an agenda focusing on the Iranian nuclear threat and Israel's relations with the Palestinians...
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BBC News
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Police in Israel have questioned Prime Minister Ehud Olmert for a second time in a corruption investigation.
Prosecutors say they suspect Mr Olmert misused large amounts of cash received from a US businessman when he was mayor of Jerusalem.
Earlier..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has denied taking bribes from a wealthy Jewish-American businessman, resisting calls for his resignation.
Mr Olmert admitted Moshe Talansky gave donations for past election campaigns, but insisted at a news conference..
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MSNBC
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced Monday that he has prostate cancer but that the disease is not life threatening and he will continue to fullfill his duties.
Speaking to a packed news conference in Jerusalem, the Israeli leader said that he will ha..
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BBC News
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Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert, is being questioned by police over his role in a bank privatisation deal.
He is suspected of trying to influence the sale of the state's controlling interest in Bank Leumi in favour of a friend whilst finance minis..
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SF Gate
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Israel's attorney general ordered police Monday to open a criminal investigation into suspicions that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert received a $330,000 discount on the price of a home in return for favors to the contractor who sold it to him.
The decision..
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USA Today
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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 in Jericho to talk about the creation of a Palesti..
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SF Gate
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Several dozen Israeli survivors of the Holocaust, supported by hundreds of younger relatives and supporters, marched in protest Sunday in front of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's office, saying that a planned government stipend is too small, insulting both t..
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New York Times
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert voiced satisfaction on Sunday over Washington's intention to offset a package of arms sales to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states with increased military aid for Israel.
He said he and U.S. President George W. Bush, in talks..
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BBC News
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has confirmed that the United States is planning a significant increase in military and defence aid to Israel.
The package would reportedly amount to more than $30bn (?14.8bn) over the next 10 years.
Mr Olmert desc..
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USA Today
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Families of Israelis killed in last year's war in Lebanon held a memorial ceremony at the national military cemetery on Monday, but Prime Minister Ehud Olmert did not attend, drawing harsh criticism.
The war cost Olmert most of his popular support and..
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BBC News
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Israel has confirmed Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will meet the Palestinian, Egyptian and Jordanian leaders at a four-way summit in Egypt on Monday.
An Israeli spokeswoman said the talks would "strengthen the moderates" and "promote Israeli-Palestinian t..
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Al Jazeera
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Both have said they will pull Labour out of Olmert's coalition unless the premier steps down in light of the Winograd Commission report's was criticism of his handling of last year's Lebanon war.
Ayalon says he will do so immediately and Barak has sai..
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USA Today
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Tens of thousands of Israelis rallied in a Tel Aviv square after sundown Thursday, demanding that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert resign because of a government inquiry's scathing criticism of his handling of the inconclusive war in Lebanon.
Olmert remained..
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