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Olmert: I will survive, run for head of Kadima Party
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Washington Jewish Week
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June 19, 2008
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Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told top Kadima Party activists Monday that he intends to run for re-election as head of Kadima in a primary that the party's steering committee approved Monday in a meeting at the Knesset.
Olmert reportedly told the activists in conversations first revealed by Israel's Channel 10 that he believes he will be exonerated in the eyes of the public following the July 17 cross-examination of the main witness against him in the corruption scandal threatening his political career, Long Island, N.Y., Jewish financier Morris Talansky.
In talks with his loyalists, Olmert compared ...