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On 14 February 2006 something happened in Israel. On this day a great war was declared against corruption in the State of Israel\\From yesterday on every politician and government functionary will think once, twice and seven times before he dips his hands into the public pocket or prefers someone in a tender or appoints an unworthy person only because he kisses your bottom\\ [[Omri Sharon]] Sharon and his father [Prime Minister Ariel Sharon] ran the state as though it were a sheep pen on the Sycamore Ranch [Sharon family home]: appointed, paid, bought, sold and suddenly - \"the bastards changed the rules of the game and forgot to tell him\". It was not the Likud that invented corruption, but it was the Likud and the Sharon family that raised it to new heights\\ The heart aches at the sad circumstances in which the prime minister lies motionless but the hands, the hands are clapping unstoppably for the declaration of war. [From editorial of centrist, largest-circulation Yediot Aharonot]

Two pieces of good news about the renewing texture of relations with the Arab world: Saudi Arabia has totally abolished the economic boycott of Israel and Tunisia has opened its doors to an official Israeli delegation headed by Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom\\ The Saudi regime faced the choice: ending the boycott of Israel or international economic isolation [non- admission to WTO], and chose to abolish the boycott. This way globalization serves in warming the relations between Israel and Arab states. Also the conference [on governmental corruption] in Tunisia is being held under an international organization, the UN\\ In order to host the conference Tunisia undertook to allow full Israeli participation in it. Yet, we are not talking only about globalization. Had it not been for the disengagement from Gaza and the renewal of cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians the Saudi boycott of Israel would not have been lifted and Silvan Shalom's official visit to Tunisia would not have materialized.

[MK and prime minister's son] [Omri Sharon] is the biggest fish that Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz's criminal tackle has caught so far. Mazuz took office with the good news that the criminal- prosecution instrument should not be given precedence in the struggle against corruption in government, and he kept his word when he closed the Greek island file against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Meanwhile, son Gilad likewise managed to avoid the net. The only one caught in it now is Omri... Omri's sins were born from his violating the restrictions of the Parties [Funding] Law. His lawyer, Dan Sheinman, tried to persuade Mazuz to play down the criminal nature of his deeds and be content with a punishment that excludes imprisonment... Mazuz refused... His insistence on imprisonment has two aspects. First, to prevent Omri's possible election to the next Knesset. The second is deterrence.

Omri Sharon was himself a former member of the Israeli Parliament - and it was his activities linked to his father's bid for the leadership of the Likud Party in 1999...

Israeli police said they have \"solid evidence\" against former Likud deputy minister Naomi Blumenthal that she paid for votes in the recent Likud primaries elections, Israel radio reported...

At the same time, Sharon faces a strong challenge within his party and from other right-wing forces to drop his controversial plan to abandon all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and pull all Israeli troops out of the tiny territory, which borders Israel, Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea. Thursday's legal decision not to charge the prime minister came as Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz announced he had accepted a recommendation by senior army officers to stop demolishing homes where Palestinian terrorists' families live. The generals found the policy, which was carried out between 2002 and last year, was often counter-productive. Instead of deterring potential terrorists from launching attacks, the bulldozing of their homes engendered even greater hatred towards Israel and was followed by an increase in terrorist attacks, a report by the generals concluded. It was the second time in recent years that charges were not brought against Sharon after a long criminal investigation. Another inquiry into a dubious $1.5-million loan from South Africa that involved Sharon, his son [Omri Sharon], and his other son, Gilad, continues.

[Omri Sharon] left prison Sunday morning for his first forlough since he began serving his sentence earlier this year. Sharon was sentenced to a prison term of seven months and was sent to a minimum security correctional facility. His participation in prison activities is reportedly quite minor, with authorities saying that his behavior has been very good.

What's more, these violations fall far more in the category of white-collar \"victimless\" crimes than the instances of sexual harassment and indecent behavior that Katsav admitted to as part of the controversial plea bargain in which he received a suspended sentence. While over the years many politicians more prominent than Sharon had been suspected of circumventing the legal limits on campaign contributions, he failed to take into account the changing judicial attitude toward this kind of corruption. Perhaps he reasoned that at most he risked having to pay out the kind of hefty fine levied on Ehud Barak's Labor Party by the State Comptroller's Office following the 1999 election, and therefore Sharon concluded that brazenly violating the Party Funding Law posed no real threat to him. For failing to read the changing political map, he now suffers the indignity of being the first perpetrator of these particular offenses - but probably not the last - to see the inside of a jail cell. He was wrong - as wrong as [Omri Sharon]. If anything, both men can count themselves fortunate to have received the sentences they did; it's unlikely that the public views the resolution of their cases as having passed the hypothetical \"Buzaglo test,\" the principle of Israeli law that the country's highest personages and most ordinary citizen - the hypothetical defendant Haim Buzaglo - should be judged by the same standards.

Omri Sharon, the eldest son of former Israeli prime minister Ariel, began a seven-month jail term yesterday for illegal fundraising.

Ensuring that Hiriya and the flat flood lands around it would be reclaimed as open green space for the residents of southern Tel Aviv, rather than falling into the hands of eager real estate developers, was one of the last and lesser known battles fought by Sharon. \"It was very important to him that they wouldn't build there,\" said Omri Sharon, his older son. \"It was very close to his heart.\"