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JERUSALEM — Ehud Olmert, the former Israeli prime minister, was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison by a judge who likened him to a “traitor†for taking bribes while mayor of Jerusalem in connection to the construction of a luxury housing development.
Mr. Olmert, who vowed to appeal his March conviction on two counts, would be the highest-ranking official in Israel’s history to serve prison time. The sentence matched the prosecutors’ request; Mr. Olmert’s lawyers had asked that he be required only to do community service.
Judge David Rozen of Tel Aviv District Court said Mr. Olmert and the nine government officials and business figures convicted alongside him had all “harmed the public trust,†and that the former prime minister deserved a harsh sentence because he is a public figure and a clever man.
“The cancer must be uprooted,†Judge Rozen said, referring to political corruption. Anshel Pfeffer, a veteran columnist, said on Twitter that the judge was “indicting a whole class of “Israel’s financial and political elite.â€
In a case that analysts here said vindicated prosecutors whose campaigns against corruption had been criticized as overzealous and expensive, Mr. Olmert was found guilty six weeks after a sweeping, yearslong investigation into the planning process surrounding the hulking, hated apartment complex in southern Jerusalem known as Holyland. A judge in 2010 called it “one of the worst corruption affairs in Israeli history.â€
Mr. Olmert, who is 68 and was prime minister from 2006 to 2009, released a statement before the 9 a.m. court session saying that Tuesday was “a sad day, on which a severe and unjust verdict is to be handed down to an innocent man.†He arrived at court wearing casual khaki slacks and a deep royal blue button-down shirt with a pen in the pocket.
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