What is Ehud Olmert?
[[File:Ehud Olmert official portrait 2006.png|thumb|Ehud Olmert in 2006]] '''Ehud Olmert''', Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט , (born 30 September 1945 in [[Binyamina]]) is an [[Israel]]i [[lawyer]] and former politician. He was [[Prime Minister of Israel]]. Olmert was a Member of [[Knesset]] from 1974 to 2009, with an interruption from 1999 to 2003. He was also mayor of [[Jerusalem]] from 1993 to 2003. In 2006 he switched from [[Likud]] to newly formed [[Kadima]]. He was the head of Kadima until September 2008.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007051.html |url-status=dead |title=Olmert to step down in September, vows to push for peace first |first=Barak |last=Ravid |date=31 July 2008 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080805045508/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1007051.html |archivedate=5 August 2008 |access-date=8 March 2016 }}</ref> He was the 12th Prime Minister of Israel between 14 April 2006 and 31 March 2009, succeeding [[Ariel Sharon]] and succeeded by [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]. From February 2016 till July 2017, Olmert was spending time in prison because of a felony conviction of [[breach of trust]] and [[bribery]]. == References == * [http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=3 Bio at Knesset Website] {{reflist}} {{Commonscat}} {{Israeli prime ministers}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Olmert, Ehud}} [[Category:1945 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Members of the Knesset]] [[Category:Government ministers of Israel]] [[Category:Israeli political leaders]] [[Category:Israeli lawyers]] [[Category:Israeli mayors]] [[Category:Israeli prisoners]] [[Category:Jewish Israeli criminals]] [[Category:Jewish Israeli politicians]] [[Category:Jewish lawyers]] [[Category:Kadima politicians]] [[Category:Likud politicians]] [[Category:Prime Ministers of Israel]]