According to Morris Talansky’s testimony in Jerusalem court, he gave Olmert $150,000 of his own money during the 15-year period, and arranged $100,000 donations. Talansky asserts Olmert never did him any favors in return.
Talansky paid for Olmert’s personal expenses in the US, such as hotel stays - which is the normal practice among the dishonest Israeli politicians.
What’s really disgusting in Talansky’s testimony, is how petty Olmert is: he requested Talansky to pay for 3-day hotel stay in New York, for example.

The majority of Knesset members supported a preliminary bill which, if enacted, would require 2/3 of the Knesset votes to cede the Golan Heights to Syria. One wonders what impotent lawyers are those MKs. Of course, a simple majority can always repeal the bill which requires supermajority vote on ceding the Golans. In other words, though the bill requires 80 Knesset members to vote in favor of relinquishing the Golan Heights, it still takes only 61 MK to repeal this bill before voting on the Golan Heights.

in Ramallah. The high-level meeting is unprecedented for the last year, suggesting reconciliation efforts.