Olmert defends handling of Lebanon war at inquiry
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert defended his handling of last year's Lebanon war for more than five hours before a commission of inquiry on Thursday.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert rejects calls for a swift end to the Lebanon blockade, after talks with the UN chief.
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Israeli PM Ehud Olmert awaits the publication of the final report into the conduct of the 2006 Lebanon war.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert convened his top ministers on Wednesday to discuss Israel's response to the latest wave of Palestinian rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, as public pressure for retaliation grew after an attack that nearly hit a crowded nursery school.
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An investigation into Israeli efforts to protect civilians during last summer's war in Lebanon has erupted into an open conflict pitting the military and the prime minister against the top government watchdog.
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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.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on   Tuesday he was determined to pursue Israel's offensive against   Hizbollah guerrillas as he met U.S. Secretary of State   Condoleezza Rice to discuss the war in Lebanon.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called his nation's continued construction in West Bank settlements a breach of Israel's obligations under a recently revived peace plan
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The Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, has made unusually critical remarks about his country's policy of building settlements in the West Bank.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for more dramatic measures to be taken against Iran and declined to rule out a military attack against Tehran in an interview with Germany's Spiegel magazine.
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Israeli newspapers forecast Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's survival on Thursday after a report criticized the army and his government's conduct during a 2006 war in Lebanon but offered him a political reprieve.
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Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Friday that he would support a sweeping, independent inquiry into Israel's war in Lebanon, a new sign of division in a government facing harsh public criticism for its handling of the conflict.
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JERUSALEM, Sept. 17--Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the appointment of an investigative committee nominated by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to examine how the government and military managed the recent war in Lebanon.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appeared in an interview broadcast on Monday to acknowledge Israel has atomic weapons or aspirations to acquire them, but a government spokeswoman denied that was his intent.
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Israel's state comptroller, a government watchdog, said Sunday it had given a draft report to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on an investigation into complaints he purchased a house in a historical Jerusalem neighborhood for below market value.
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared Thursday during a tour of Israel's northern border that the war he launched against Hezbollah guerrillas a year ago was a success that made Israel safer.
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TEL AVIV, Israel  - Thousands of Israelis   demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday to demand that Prime   Minister Ehud Olmert order an independent state inquiry into   his government's handling of the war in Lebanon.