Israel’s Olmert endorses Peres presidency bid
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Sunday endorsed elder statesman and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres as his candidate for the country’s next president, a political source said. Olmert’s remarks to ministers of his Kadima party dismissed any notion the two had had a falling out over Peres’s testimony to a Lebanon war inquiry panel, that he would not have entered the war in July had a decision rested with him. Full Story