An Israeli court has  handed former prime minister Ehud Olmert  one month of prison for obstructing justice, in addition to a previous 18-month sentence for bribery.

Olmert is due to become the first former Israeli premier to serve jail time when he reports to prison on February 15.

He had sought a plea bargain to serve a six-month term for obstruction of justice concurrently with the bribery sentence, in exchange for admitting to the crime.

But magistrates court judge Avital Chen ordered one month of jail to be served consecutively and five months concurrently.

Israel`s supreme court is still debating a January 19 appeal by Olmert on a third conviction from May 2015 over fraud and corruption, for which the former premier had been sentenced to eight months` imprisonment.Olmert`s sentence was in connection with an attempt to persuade his former secretary Shula Zaken not to testify against him in the bribery case and in the fraud and corruption case.He was given six years` prison in May 2014 for taking bribes in the early 2000s in connection with the construction of Jerusalem`s massive Holyland residential complex, but the sentence was later reduced to 18 months.

Zaken had recorded him and used the materials to win a lesser sentencing for her part in the cases.

Israel plans security fences’ ring as Mideast is filled with “wild beasts Palestinian boy shot dead

A 15-year-old Palestinian boy was shot dead during clashes with Israeli soldiers north of Hebron in the West Bank, medics said. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Omer Madi, 15, from al-Aroub refugee camp was shot dead by Israeli troops’ gunfire in the camp.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said  he has plans to encircle Israel with fences because the Mideast is filled with “wild beasts” that imperil the Jewish country.

“We are preparing a multi-year plan to surround the entire State of Israel with security fences to protect ourselves in the current Middle East,” Netanyahu said during a tour to the construction site of a new fence along its eastern border with Jordan, media from England reported.

“In the place where we live, we must defend ourselves against the wild beasts,” Netanyahu said, apparently referring to Islamist militants. He also said that openings in the separation wall in the West Bank will be sealed off.

On January 20, Israel began the construction of a 30-km-long barrier along its border with Jordan. The fence will stretch from the resort city of Eilat, Israel’s southernmost city, to the airport of Timna.

It will cost over $74 million, according to a statement released last month by the Ministry of Defence. The fence will be the latest “security fence” erected by Israel.  In 2013, Israel completed the construction of a 240-km-long fence along its border with Egypt.