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Place of Birth: Binyamina, Mandatory Palestine (now Binyamina-Giv’at Ada, Haifa District, Israel)
Date of Birth: 30 September, 1945
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Ehud Olmert is an Israeli politician and lawyer. He served as the 12th Prime Minister of Israel , from 14 April, 2006 to 31 March, 2009, initially in an Acting capacity. He was also Minister without portfolio, from 1988 to 1990, Minister of Health, from 1990 to 1992, Mayor of Jerusalem, from 2 November, 1993 to 16 February, 2003, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, from 27 February, 2003 to 14 April, 2006, Minister of Communications, from 2003 to 2005, Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor, from 2003 to 2006, Minister of Finance, from 2005 to 2006, and Minister of Welfare, in 2006.
His parents, Bella (Vugman) and Mordechai Olmert, were Russian Jewish/Ukrainian Jewish immigrants, who moved to Harbin, China, and then to Israel. His father was a politician, who was a member of the Knesset for Herut, from 1955 to 1961. Prime Minister Olmert is married to artist Aliza Richter, with whom he has four children, including left wing activist, literary theorist, and editor Dana Olmert, and entrepreneur and business executive Shaul Olmert.
Prime Minister Olmert’s paternal grandfather was named Yosef Olmert.
Source: Genealogy of Ehud Olmert (focusing on his father’s side) – https://www.geni.com