JERUSALEM: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to months in prison for corruption on Monday, the latest legal blow in a spectacular fall from grace.

Lawyers for Olmert, who served as premier from 2006 to 2009, crowning a political career spanning decades, immediately announced they would appeal.

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