When I was five years old, two days before my sixth birthday, I came down with the chickenpox, ruining the party that was planned. Something similar has happened this week to Israel. A fine 60th birthday present the prime minister of Israel, Ehud Olmert, and his police investigators have given it! Just when the country was dutifully trying to forget its troubles and gearing up to celebrate six decades of Jewish independence next Thursday, it was notified in rapid succession that: