Israel’s attorney general launched an investigation into allegations that Ehud Olmert made political appointments to the board of an Israeli telephone company. Olmert, the vice prime minister and finance minister, denied allegations announced Monday that he appointed Likud Party officials to Bezeq when he was communications minister in 2004. Bezeq, formerly a state-owned company, has since been privatized.
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