Poster hanging over Tel Aviv highway cites PM, now accused by police of corruption, telling Olmert to resign under similar circumstances in 2008
Times of Israel, Feb 15, 2018
The Knesset’s largest opposition faction, the Zionist Union, on Thursday targeted motorists in its effort to drive home the message that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should resign following police recommendations that he be indicted for corruption.
A huge billboard over the main Tel Aviv highway quoted Netanyahu himself, who said in 2008 that “a prime minister who is neck-deep in investigations has no public or moral mandate to make crucial decisions… the right thing to do is for the government to go home.”
Netanyahu made the comments in reference to Ehud Olmert, the prime minister at the time, who was under investigation for multiple cases of suspected corruption.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/zionist-un...ng-him-to-quit/
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It was Olmert's resignation and his successor's inability to form a government after winning the general election that paved the way for Netanyahu to resume the premiership after losing it ten years earlier.
BTW, Olmert went on to serve 16 of his 27-month prison sentence for fraud and bribery.
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