Ehud Olmert Loses Prison Privileges After Being Insolent With A Guard
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been denied any prison furloughs for six weeks as a punishment for being insolent to a guard.
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been denied any prison furloughs for six weeks as a punishment for being insolent to a guard.
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was released Monday morning, beginning a 48-hour furlough. The two-day outing marks the first time the former Prime Minister has been seen in public since he began serving his 19-month prison term in February.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s appeal against his conviction in the “cash envelopes” affair, in which he accepted cash-filled envelopes from American Jewish businessman Morris Talansky.
Former Defense Minister Ehud Barak is claiming that Israel was ready to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2011, but Ministers Moshe Ya’alon and Yuval Steinitz refused, and the plan was nixed.
Egyptian Air Force planes have in recent months crossed into Israeli airspaces part of Egypt’s military campaign against the local Sinai affiliate of the Islamic State terror group, Ynet learned on Tuesday.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Monday that Egypt is committed to maintaining its peace treaty with Israel and promoting an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he claimed “feeds international terror organizations.”
A passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide bomb belt seized control of an EgyptAir flight from Alexandria to Cairo and ordered it flown to Cyprus Tuesday morning.
An EgyptAir flight traveling to Cairo from Paris crashed early Thursday with 66 passengers and crew members on board, Egyptian aviation officials said.
Egypt’s foreign minister is meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu Sunday for the first such visit to Israel in nearly a decade that is the latest sign of warming ties.
An explosion inside Cairo’s Coptic cathedral killed at least 22 people and wounded 35, Egypt’s state television said, in the second deadly attack to hit the Egyptian capital in two days.