Israel sends former Prime Minister to jail for accepting bribe
There is no escaping serving a jail term for former Isreali Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert.
The country’s Supreme Court has ordered him to serve 18 months in jail for bribery.
The sentence is a reduction in the six-year-sentence handed him by a lower court in 2014.
The 70-year-old was convicted over a real estate deal that took place while he served as mayor of Jerusalem, BBC reports.
Olmert will be the first Israeli ex-prime minister to go to prison.
He is still appealing against a conviction for fraud and breach of trust.
Ehud Olmert served as Prime Minister from 2006 to 2009 and before that as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006..
