Olmert revives two-state plan before first post-Oct. 7 vote

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he remains one of the few Israeli voices offering a two-state solution as Israelis prepare to vote. The election is the first since the Oct.

• 1Israelis are preparing to vote in their first election since Oct. 7 and the wars that followed in Gaza, Lebanon, and with Iran
• 2Ehud Olmert served as Israel's prime minister from 2006 to 2009
• 3Olmert proposed a Palestinian state on almost all the land occupied in 1967; the proposal was never signed