Israel’s High Court of Justice on Wednesday, 25 Elul, rejected the appeal filed on behalf of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. As such, Mr. Olmert will have to serve an additional eight months imprisonment for his conviction in the Talansky cash envelopes retrial conviction.

This means that instead of completing his 19-month term, that term has now become 27 months. Mr. Olmert began serving his sentence in February 2016.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)