UNITED NATIONS — The long-awaited final report detailing the findings of Israel’s investigation into the 2006 Lebanon war — which was made public in Jerusalem yesterday — was critical of the Jewish state’s military and political decision-makers, but it failed to deal a big enough blow to force Prime Minister Olmert to resign, according to Israeli analysts and politicians.

While aides to Mr. Olmert called on his critics to “apologize,” opposition sources said that while the way the report was presented to the public yesterday may not suffice to topple Mr. Olmert, they hoped that at least a few members of the five-person investigative commission would express dissent in coming days, focusing on the report’s critical findings. Such a move could turn the political tide, they said.

Mr. Olmert’s political allies predicted that the Knesset majority led by his centrist Kadima Party — which assures his position as head of government — would easily survive the findings of the 629-page report from the commission headed by a former Supreme Court judge, Eliyahu Winograd.

The one figure who has the power to create a political crisis leading to early elections, Ehud Barak, who is the defense minister and Labor Party head, said yesterday that he would not make any decision before studying the report in depth. Mr. Barak, who has made a lot of political gains in recent months by keeping mum on crucial issues, is not expected to announce his move anytime soon.

After earlier installments of the Winograd commission’s report were published last year, both Mr. Barak’s predecessor as defense minister and Labor leader, Amir Peretz, and the wartime IDF chief of staff, Dan Halutz, resigned their posts.

Yesterday’s report — presented to the public at a Jerusalem press conference — assigned more blame to the army than to Mr. Olmert’s government for what Mr. Winograd termed a “serious missed opportunity” in the summer of 2006 war that Israel launched against Hezbollah after the terror organization kidnapped two soldiers. The Israel Defense Force’s “high command and the ground forces” failed to “provide an effective military response to the challenge,” according to the report.

Fear of casualties clouded the military decision-making process, according to the report, which directed its harshest criticism at the ground forces leadership, assigning lighter blame to Israel’s air force and navy.

Cabinet members and Mr. Olmert acted “out of a strong and sincere perception of what they thought at the time was Israel’s interest,” the report said, even as it criticized their inability to define the war’s goals and lead the country to victory.

But there was still much criticism of Mr. Olmert in the long report, which detailed the decision-making process down to the contents of phone calls and water cooler discussions among the top figures holding leadership positions. The two-volume edition of the report that was issued yesterday concentrated on the second half of the 34-day war and the final 60-hour ground offensive that exacted the highest death toll among IDF troops.

Demonstrators who have camped for days in front of Mr. Barak’s Jerusalem’s office, many of them reserve soldiers and members of the families of those killed in the war, said yesterday that they remained convinced Mr. Olmert should resign. But his allies seemed victorious.

“This report exonerates Olmert,” Vice Prime Minister Haim Ramon told reporters. Other aides told Israeli reporters that Mr. Olmert’s critics should now “apologize” to him. An official message posted on the Web site of the Likud Party, which public opinion polls said would emerge as the largest party in the Knesset if a general election were held today, stressed criticism of Mr. Olmert in the report, and called on him “to assume personal responsibility and resign.”

Both sides made public pleas for Mr. Barak — whose Labor Party has enough Knesset members to dissolve the coalition and force new elections — to act. Mr. Ramon called on him to “show national responsibility and stay in the government,” according to the Jerusalem Post. If Mr. Barak looked to find in the report a “pretext to avoid resigning, he couldn’t have found it,” the Likud’s statement said.

However, a top Likud official acknowledged in a conversation with The New York Sun yesterday that if the government is to be toppled, the dissenters in the Winograd commission need to step up and publicly interpret the report more bluntly.