Ehud Olmert

Obama seeks to reset relationship with Netanyahu

100 days ago

After a long and chilly four years, Barack Obama hopes to reset his relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he makes his first trip to Israel as president this spring.

Obama to visit Israel and the West Bank

101 days ago

The trip would be Obama's first visit to Israel as president; he traveled there and to the West Bank as a presidential candidate in July 2008.It comes as he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...

U.S., Israel pressure EU over Hezbollah after Bulgaria says group behind bus attack

101 days ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called on Europe to draw the "proper conclusions" from the investigation into the blast, which found that a Hezbollah cell that included a Canadian and...

Israel unlikely to retaliate after Bulgaria report

101 days ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the report "further corroboration of what we have already known, that Hezbollah and its Iranian patrons are orchestrating a worldwide campaign of...

Israel's Netanyahu hits snags in building team

101 days ago

As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepares to take office for a third time, his attempts to form a new coalition government have gotten off to a rocky start.

Textbook study faults Israelis and Palestinians

103 days ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argues that the conflict with the Palestinians is not over land, but over Israel's acceptance in the region, and that peace is not possible until the...

Israel's comatose Sharon shows brain activity

109 days ago

His deputy, Ehud Olmert, took over and was elected prime minister a few months later.

Obama congratulates Israel's Netanyahu on election

109 days ago

President Barack Obama is congratulating Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on his success in last week's election.

Exit polls: Netanyahu, allies win Israeli election

115 days ago

Exit polls show that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Likud Party and his hard-line allies have won a narrow majority in parliamentary elections.

Israel's Netanyahu appears poised for third term

116 days ago

Together with his three-year term as premier in the late 1990s, Netanyahu, 63, has now served longer than any other Israeli prime minister besides the country's founding father, David Ben-Gurion.

Trump records YouTube endorsement of Netanyahu

119 days ago

Donald Trump says he recorded a YouTube endorsement of Benjamin Netanyahu for re-election because the Israeli prime minister asked him to.

Polls give hard-line bloc edge in Israel elections

121 days ago

Polls give hawkish and religious parties led by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a comfortable edge over their center-left rivals ahead of next week's parliamentary elections.

UN chief urges Israel to rescind E1 settlement

123 days ago

U.N. deputy spokesman Eduardo del Buey says the U.N. chief is following "with concern" Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's pledge Sunday to move ahead with construction of a new Jewish...

Israel PM blocks roads to Palestinian tent site

125 days ago

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has closed roads leading to a West Bank site in preparation to evacuate Palestinians who pitched tents there to protest plans to build a Jewish settlement.

Naftali Bennett won't beat Benjamin Netanyahu in Israeli election, but he's cut...

127 days ago

Since Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called for new parliamentary elections last fall, the conventional wisdom in the country has been that this would be one of the most boring...