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(IsraelNN.com) Jewish Leadership faction head Moshe Feiglin said in his weekly letter to supporters that facts have proven he was correct in predicting that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would not fall from power as quickly as others thought he would. Feiglin's faction is the national religious wing of the Likud, which often tries to keep him at arm's length.

Feiglin had written, before the Prime Minister survived a near-certain defeat in the Knesset, "I do not think that Olmert will fall in the near future. Furthermore, he may even come out of his legal ordeal stronger than ever... We live in a culture of betrayal. Ethics do not matter; only the law does, and Olmert is a sly and seasoned lawyer."