Ehud Olmert

The 12th Prime Minister of Israel.

 THE OFFICIAL residence of Kazakhstan’s president, and the Baiterek monument in the modern city of Nur-Sultan.

Israel-Kazakhstan: Celebrating 30 years of cooperation - opinion

 China and Israel - Friends or foes?

The US is our ally, China is not our enemy - opinion

PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett chairs the first weekly cabinet meeting of his new government on Sunday.

Prime Minister Bennett: A new beginning for Israel - opinion


Netanyahu's incitement is an invitation to murder - opinion

What Netanyahu is doing in all practicality is a call to return to the incitement that led to the murder of Yitzhak Rabin.

LIKUD SUPPORTERS protest during outside the home of Yamina Party No. 2, parliament member Ayelet Shaked’s Tel Aviv home last month, after Yamina announced that it would go into a unity government with Yesh Atid Party head Yair Lapid.

Olmert to 'Post': Bennett-Lapid coalition is end of PM Netanyahu

Everyone who imagines that Netanyahu will just give up and accept the new reality is demonstrating that they have learned nothing.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu sits alone in the Knesset during the vote for president on Wednesday.

Israel elections round five: The least bad alternative

There’s no reason Bennett and Sa’ar can’t join forces and create a collaborative right-wing party that would be a worthy alternative to Netanyahu’s Likud.

YAIR LAPID and Naftali Bennett walk together in the Knesset in 2013

What's next for Israel in the Gaza Strip? - opinion

At a time when millions of citizens just want to live in safety and not to be targets of rocket fire, our country’s leaders must be willing to make decisions.

SMOKE AND FLAMES follow an Israeli air strike on a building in Gaza City on Tuesday.

Israel's bloc for change coalition hanging on a tightrope - opinion

How do you form a government like this that is supposed to correct a significant part of the distortions created by the Likud government headed by Benjamin Netanyahu?

NEW HOPE leader Gideon Sa’ar and party members visit at ‘The Lone Oak Tree,’ a 700-year-old oak tree in Alon Shavot, Gush Etzion, in February.

Olmert to 'Post': Ohana, Netanyahu responsible and guilty for Meron

When the investigation process is completed, those responsible will be identified. No one will be held criminally liable.

PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER Amir Ohana – at celebrations on Mount Meron last month – declared himself responsible, but not guilty for the tragedy there.

Ehud Olmert to 'Post': We are on the way to another Intifada - opinion

It’s a known fact that Palestinians are no responsible for most terrorist attacks take place in Jerusalem not responsible for any terrorist activity – this responsibility falls solely upon us.

PA PRESIDENT Mahmoud Abbas gestures during a meeting with the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah.

Olmert to Bennett: Create 'New Likud' with Sa'ar, oust Netanyahu - opinion

"I remember well that you pledged to prevent having to hold a fifth election, whatever the cost. This is the only promise that you cannot keep."

NAFTALI BENNETT in his office. The Yamina Party leader now represents the sane right wing in the political arena.

Netanyahu's Holocaust Remembrance Day speech a wretched insult - opinion

Never has anything so disgusting, so smug, so false or so insulting been spoken by an Israeli prime minister as the nonsense the prime minister allowed himself to say.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at Yad Vashem at the start of Holocaust Remembrance Day last week.

Ehud Olmert to 'Post': The IDF is in dire need of reform - opinion

The concept of compulsory IDF military duty that was fitting for the social reality of the 1950s and 1960s and the national ethos that dominated public discourse at the time has changed.

SOLDIERS TRAIN on the Golan Heights on Wednesday.