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When Olmert left office last June, he already had rock-bottom approval ratings, thanks to his botched handling of the Lebanon war in 2006 and his ever accumulating scandals. In a poll conducted by Haifa University and released last month, he won the title of "most corrupt Prime Minister" in Israeli history by a landslide, with 52% of the vote. "I don't see any chance of him coming back into politics," says Raviv Drucker, a top political commentator on one of Israel's main television channels. Whatever the outcome of his legal problems, Olmert has already come to symbolize...
...Kook Street in Ramat Gan, Japan, Amsterdam—drift hazily into one other. When he halts the waves of meditation for more concrete narrative material, the tongue-in-cheek presentation suggests that dabbling in the realm of standard exposition is another of his little experiments. The University of Haifa, for example, is an index of the expected, so he can be flippant with the details: “People walk about with names like Kaplinksi or Eshtahaul or Bar-Ziva, and girls walk around in various colors, and all enter and exit rooms with the number...
...Bank. Knowing that Palestinian Authority license plates are banned in Israel, Ismail reserved a car at an Israeli rental company. But, when he got to Israeli border control, he was shocked to discover that his Canadian passport was stamped "Palestinian Authority Only." "Last time they came, they visited Acre, Haifa, Jerusalem - the whole country," Ismail's brother Nedal, who lives in the West Bank, told TIME. "This time they packed up after 96 hours and spent the extra week in Jordan instead...
...same "enemy" that 15 years ago saved him and his countrymen from genocide. U.S. soldiers were among those who gave their lives to safeguard his right to democracy, his right to practice his religion and his right to express the kind of nonsense he is now spouting. Omer Gendler, HAIFA, ISRAEL...
...With reporting by Jamil Hamad / Bethlehem and Aaron J. Klein / Haifa...