MK Yitzhak Herzog responded at the start of the Zionist Union’s faction meeting to former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s entry into prison.
“We, as public servants, are leaders. We are required, as anyone else, to abide by the laws and keep our hands clean and our principles pure. This is a tough day, because no nation wants to see its leaders go to prison… As a former minister in Olmert’s government, I feel pain and sorrow. I hope that a lesson has been learned and that we will not see any more cases like this in the future.”