Israel Head of government

Ehud Olmert

إيهود أولمرت אהוד אולמרט

Head of government Inactive Verified

Prime minister of Israel 2006-2009, succeeded Sharon, led the 2006 Lebanon war and 2008 Gaza operation, resigned amid corruption probes that led to a prison sentence.

Country: Israel
Party: Independent / unaligned
Role: Head of government
Status: Historical figure

Position

Ehud Olmert governs without formal party mediation and has no source documents on file yet, so no individual position is assigned.

On the record

Quotes attributed to Ehud Olmert that have passed verification. Each carries a year, the context of the statement, and at least one source citation. Browse the full corpus or play the "Who said it?" game.

If the day comes when the two-state solution collapses, and we face a South African-style struggle for equal voting rights, then, as soon as that happens, the State of Israel is finished.

אם יגיע היום שבו פתרון שתי המדינות יתמוטט ונעמוד מול מאבק על זכויות הצבעה שוות בנוסח דרום אפריקה, ברגע שזה יקרה, מדינת ישראל גמורה.

2007 November 29 2007 interview with Haaretz, framing the demographic argument for partition in language no sitting Israeli prime minister had previously used in public. en.wikipedia.org · en.wikiquote.org

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Ehud Olmert [Politician profile]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/olmert

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Ehud Olmert." Politician profile, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed June 21, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/olmert.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-olmert,
  title     = {{Ehud Olmert}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Politician profile},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pol/olmert},
  urldate   = {2026-06-21},
  note      = {First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved June 21, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-06-21},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.