FACTBOX: Five facts about Israeli PM Ehud Olmert

(Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who is pursuing new, U.S.-sponsored peace talks with the Palestinians, may face more calls to resign when an inquiry into the 2006 Lebanon war issues a final report on Wednesday:

Here are five facts about Olmert:

* His approval ratings plummeted after the war on Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas in 2006 and have been in the doldrums since, not helped by allegations of sleaze involving both politics and business deals. He has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and once said of his troubles: "I am indestructible."

* Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas relaunched Israeli-Palestinian peace talks at a U.S.-backed conference in November after a seven-year hiatus and agreed to try to reach an agreement on Palestinian statehood this year. But he heads a fractious coalition and many doubt he can win Israeli support for the critical concessions needed to secure a deal.

* He joined former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in leaving the right-wing Likud party in 2005 to form the centrist Kadima. Olmert became party leader after Sharon was felled by a stroke in January 2006. Kadima won elections two months later.

* A keen runner, soccer fan and fitness fanatic, he is now 62. His approval ratings got a boost in October when he announced he had early-stage prostate cancer but would stay on in office. He plans to have surgery to remove the growth.

* Olmert spent his mandatory military service as a reporter due to health problems, seeing combat only from afar. He entered parliament in 1973, aged 28. While in his 30s, he briefly reenlisted to undergo an officer's course. Olmert also had a legal career. Elected mayor of Jerusalem in 1993, he championed building Jewish enclaves in Arab parts of the city.

(Editing by Charles Dick)