Aides to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert have told the London-based Arabic-language newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat that the person behind the new accusations against Olmert is a well-known Likud party activist.
According to the sources, the woman decided to expose the affair at the current time because of the recent diplomatic progress made by the prime minister.
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Olmert used PMO to further wife's art career
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert used his bureau to promote the artistic career of his wife Aliza, a Haaretz report reveals. The report also says that when the couple were in New York for a private art exhibit by Olmert, their stay at a luxury hotel was paid for by an American association.
In the summer of 2005, Olmert presented an exhibition in New York to which dozens of wealthy and influential people were invited. The invitations were allegedly issued by Rachael Risby Raz, the foreign affairs advisor in Olmert's bureau when he was minister of industry, trade and labor. Invitations for a dinner were printed on official ministry stationary.
The Olmerts stayed at the exclusive Peninsula Hotel in a $2,500-a-night suite, for only $500 a night on the say-so of the hotel chain's Jewish billionaire owner Michael Kadoorie. A pro-Israel group headed by a former Likud activist, Sharon Tzur, paid for the room.
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Director Media Watch International (MWI)... Her grandparents were both involved in Betar, having fled their native Poland "with all its pogroms and other anti-Jewish problems" to settle in what was then Palestine. Her grandfather, she says, was accused of murdering David Ben-Gurion's friend, Chaim Arlozoroff. "Just for the record, he didn't do it. It was simply another case of blood libel," Tzur notes, dryly.
Tzur was born in Canada, where she lived until the age of 7, when her family made aliyah. She became involved with Betar as a teen, and credits the youth movement for fostering her strong commitment to the Jewish state.
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