Ehud Olmert (Hebrew: אהוד אולמרט‎ (audio) (help·info), IPA: [ɛˈhud ˈolmeʁt], born 30 September 1945) was the Prime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009. Olmert was the mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset and became a minister and Acting Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. On 4 January 2006, after Sharon suffered a severe hemorrhagic stroke, Olmert began exercising the powers of the office of Prime... read more