Who plead not guilty to charges with Ehud Olmert in Jerusalem District Court?”
Former prime minister Ehud Olmert and his longtime aide, Shula Zaken, pleaded not guilty to all the charges included in the indictment against them during a hearing in Jerusalem District Court on Monday.Presiding Judge Moussia Arad ordered the lawyers – attorneys Eli Zohar and Nevot Tel-Tzur for Olmert and Micha Fetman for Zaken – to file their written replies to the indictment by January 4. Tel-Tzur told reporters after the hearing, “The bottom line is that the defendants made a sweeping rejection of all the charges against them. The burden of proof lies heavily on the shoulders of the state. I don’t believe it will succeed in meeting it.” Zohar asked the court for more time to reply to the charges regarding the Rishon Tours affair since the lawyer hired to handle that issue, Yehuda Weinstein, had in the meanwhile been chosen to succeed Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz and therefore resigned from the case. Zohar said he was having trouble finding a replacement because the amount of mate
