Olmert gets 6 years jail for bribery

A Tel Aviv court on Tuesday sentenced Israeli ex-premier Ehud Olmert to six years in prison for accepting bribes linked to a major property development in Jerusalem, media reports said. Broadcasting live from the court, Israel's main radio stations said Judge David Rosen handed Olmert six years of jail time and a fine of a million shekels ($290,000) over his involvement in one of the country's worst-ever corruption scandals. The 68-year-old, who was convicted six weeks ago on two charges of taking bribes, is the first former prime minister of Israel to face jail time for corruption. "He held the most important and central position and ended up convicted of contemptible crimes," the judge said in passing the sentence, according to AFP.