Via WFB:
JERUSALEM—In 2014, five years after he left office, Ehud Olmert was targeted for assassination by Hezbollah because of an assassination he had approved as prime minister of Israel, according to an Arabic-language newspaper.
The targeting of the out-of-office political leader came as a surprise. In the end, the plan came to naught. The London-based Al-Arabi al-Jadid, citing political elements “in close contact with Hezbollah,” said the Lebanese militia was seeking revenge for the killing in 2008 of Imad Mughniyeh, military chief of the organization, by a booby trap placed in his car in Damascus.
Indirect confirmation of the report came Wednesday from sources in Israel, who revealed that security precautions around Olmert were stepped up last year out of concern that Hezbollah would attempt to get at him. Olmert was in office not only at the time of the Mughniyeh killing but during the month-long war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006.