A SON of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was yesterday charged with corruption in connection with fundraising activities for one of his father’s election campaigns.

Prosecutors today indicted a son of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on corruption charges in connection with fund-raising activities for one of his father’s election campaigns, Israel Radio reported.

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon weathered another storm today when Israel’s attorney general declined to charge him in a party finance scandal while indicting his son.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will not be prosecuted in a campaign financing case but his son is to be indicted, state radio reported today.

Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials are scheduled to meet in Britain next week for private talks, the first such contact between the two sides since the death of Yasser Arafat.

Senior Israeli and Palestinian officials, including Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s son and Yasser Arafat’s security adviser, were meeting in London today at the start of a two-day conference on implementation of a US-backed peace plan.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon cancelled all his meetings to face a day of being interrogated by anti corruption police.

Israeli police today questioned Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s elder son Omri for nine hours in a corruption investigation, police said.

ISRAELI Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being investigated over an alleged €1 million bribe, it was reported yesterday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, whose Likud party has been hurt in the polls by corruption charges, is being investigated over an alleged £1m (€1.54m) bribe, it was reported today.

Israeli fraud squad detectives interviewed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon today over allegations of illegal campaign donations during primaries for the leadership of his Likud party.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, long a harsh critic of Yasser Arafat, sent his son to meet the Palestinian leader this week as part of efforts to work out an end to Mideast violence.