Israel's former prime minister Ehud Olmert has been jailed for six years on charges of bribery by a court in Tel Aviv, becoming the most senior Israeli politician to receive a criminal conviction. Olmert, 68, and a number of codefendants were jailed after being found guilty of receiving millions of dollars from the Holyland Development Company – the developers behind the Holyland luxury real estate project in Jerusalem. The charges – which Olmert has always denied – relate to 2006, when he was mayor of Jerusalem.
UPDATE: The sentence was later reduced to 18 months, which Olmert began serving in Feb., 2016.
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