JERUSALEM, April 30 -- An official Israeli investigative committee on Monday accused Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of "a serious failure in exercising judgment, responsibility and prudence" in taking the country to war in Lebanon last summer.
A panel probing the conduct of Israel's war in Lebanon last year scathingly criticized Ehud Olmert on Monday but the prime minister said he would not resign but work instead to put right mistakes.
Israel's Lebanon war commission leveled scathing criticism against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interim report on Monday that cast doubt on his political future but did not call on him to resign.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Defence Minister Amir Peretz and former army chief Dan Halutz are to blame for the "serious failure" of the Lebanon war, said a government inquiry released on Monday.
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert along with Defence Minister Amir Peretz and former army chief Dan Halutz are to blame for failures of the Lebanon war, said a government inquiry released on Monday.
An Israeli inquiry into the Lebanon war was expected on Monday to criticize Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sharply for launching last year's campaign against Hezbollah guerrillas but refrain from calling on him to resign.
Israel's Lebanon war inquiry commission leveled scathing criticism against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in an interim report on Monday.
A report on the way Israel managed last summer's Second Lebanon War Monday prompted demands that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Amir Peretz resign, but the government is likely to sit tight.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert will face fierce criticism when a government commission releases its first findings Monday on last year's inconclusive war in Lebanon, officials said, raising pressure on the Israeli leader to step down.
A long-awaited Israeli government probe accuses Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of "severe failure" in his handling of the war with Hezbollah in Lebanon last summer. There are calls for Olmert and his defense minister to resign.