[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$f_6QOOuvaLXGJJ4fyA0Q_mFZB_5zVHByr8hEFYt-ztAs":3,"$fd9IpOkAgL9J1_FHrDv3yDmI0ZqYyXfI40fYuSO6Z74s":18},{"author":4,"tags":13},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":10,"slug":11,"image_url":12},170229,"Ehud Olmert","E",203,"The decades following Israel's founding generated a political culture shaped by the pressures of statehood, civic administration, and an expanding legal profession. Ehud Olmert was born into that environment on September 30, 1945, in Nahalat Jabotinsky.\n\nAn Israeli citizen educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Olmert trained as a lawyer and built a career that encompassed both legal advocacy and elected political office. He served as a mayor, bringing municipal governance into the range of his public roles alongside his work as a politician and advocate. His use of both Hebrew and English reflects the dual demands placed on Israeli public figures operating across domestic and international registers. His professional identity was shaped by legal training on one side and the responsibilities of representative office on the other, with the Hebrew University providing the formal educational foundation for both.\n\nThe Library of Congress authority file records him under the authorized form \"Olmert, Ehud, 1945-,\" a marker of his presence in formal archival and scholarly reference systems. That cataloguing anchors his place within the documentary record of Israeli political life, standardized under his birth year and the citizenship he holds.","The decades following Israel's founding generated a political culture shaped by the pressures of statehood, civic administration, and an expanding legal profession. Ehud Olmert was born into that environment on September 30, 1945, in Nahalat Jabotinsky.","ehud-olmert",null,[14],{"tag_id":15,"tag_name":16,"tag_count":17},17134,"israel",8,{"quotes":19,"pagination":82},[20,28,34,40,46,52,58,64,70,76],{"id":21,"quote_text":22,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":25,"source":26,"quote_tag":27,"commentary":12},3651991,"I would never agree to an exclusive Muslim sovereignty over areas that are religiously important to Jews and Christians.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":29,"quote_text":30,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":31,"source":32,"quote_tag":33,"commentary":12},3651990,"From the end of 2006 until the end of 2008 I think I met with Abu Mazen more often than any Israeli leader has ever met any Arab leader. I met him more than 35 times. They were intense, serious negotiations.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":35,"quote_text":36,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":37,"source":38,"quote_tag":39,"commentary":12},3651989,"I'm entirely free of any suspicions or complaints about the Obama administration. I think the Obama administration is very friendly to Israel. I know a lot of the people in the administration, and they are committed to Israel.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":41,"quote_text":42,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":43,"source":44,"quote_tag":45,"commentary":12},3651988,"Yasser Arafat never wanted to make peace with Israel.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":47,"quote_text":48,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":49,"source":50,"quote_tag":51,"commentary":12},3651987,"I have reached a conclusion that when we have to make a choice between greater Israel or a Jewish democratic state - and we have to make this choice, it is inevitable - then my choice is a Jewish democratic country.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":53,"quote_text":54,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":55,"source":56,"quote_tag":57,"commentary":12},3651985,"I always admired the tolerance of my family - you know, that they tolerated my dissension for the family consensus.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":59,"quote_text":60,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":61,"source":62,"quote_tag":63,"commentary":12},3651982,"I want to lead. I want to change. And I'm going to do it.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":65,"quote_text":66,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":67,"source":68,"quote_tag":69,"commentary":12},3651979,"Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":71,"quote_text":72,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":73,"source":74,"quote_tag":75,"commentary":12},3651976,"Dictates are futile, and mutual accusations are nothing but useless word games.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"id":77,"quote_text":78,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":24,"author":79,"source":80,"quote_tag":81,"commentary":12},3651973,"I understand the importance which the Palestinian society attributes to the issue of prisoners.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":11,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":12},{},[],{"currentPage":83,"totalPages":84,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":85},1,21,10]