Ehud Olmert declared war on organized crime and political corruption in Israel. “Organized crime has reached an unprecedented scale, and my government will not accept it,” the Israeli prime minister said in a policy speech Wednesday. “We will fight crime with the same determination with which we fight terror.”
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