Prosecutors expressed confidence that they had incriminating evidence against Ehud Olmert during the first day of testimony in the trial of the former prime minister in the Jerusalem District Court on Thursday.
While Arab Israeli MKs called for a probe into the killing of senior Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, MK Carmel Shama (Likud) said that "killing a terrorist like Mabhouh was a kind of mitzvah."