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

2 source documents on file for Ehud Olmert (below). A document-grounded individual position is being scored from them; until that passes review no compass point is shown, rather than imply a precision the dataset doesn't yet have.

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

Source documents

Texts tied to this politician — speeches, interviews, op-eds. The scoring pipeline reads these when scoring positions against documents. All documents →

Interview English 2023-06-17

Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — interview via The Philadelphia Inquirer, Jun 2023: warning that without a two-state solution Israel risks apartheid comparison — "We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime… of South Africa" — and that "this government doesn't want to make peace."

We are reaching a point where we will be compared with the apartheid regime that led the civilized world to boycott South Africa. This government doesn't want to make peace. It won't make any effort to make peace.

38 words original source ↗
English

Ehud Olmert (former Prime Minister of Israel, 2006–2009) — Haaretz opinion piece (per Ahram Online, 23 Jun 2026), among the harshest condemnations of the Gaza war by any senior Israeli figure: "It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes," calling the war the work of "the criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu." [Second doc — distinct war-conduct axis.]

It is undeniable that Israel has been committing acts that could be classified as war crimes. Never since its establishment has the State of Israel waged such a war… The criminal gang headed by Benjamin Netanyahu has…

49 words original source ↗

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 August 6, 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 August 6, 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   = {2026-08-06},
  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 August 6, 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 = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

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