Gilad Sharon

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Gilad Sharon

Gilad Sharon ( ; b. 1966) is the son of Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon

is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
, who is the former Prime Minister

Prime Minister of Israel

The Prime Minister of Israel is the head of the Israeli government and is the most powerful political officer in Israel . He or she wields executive power in the country, and has an official residence in Jerusalem....
of Israel

Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
. His brother Omri Sharon

Omri Sharon

Omri Sharon is the son of former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon and a former Likud and Kadima member of Knesset....
is a former member of Knesset

Knesset

The Knesset is the legislature of Israel, located in Givat Ram, Jerusalem....
. Gilad Sharon is in charge of business affairs for Sycamore Farm, the Sharon estate.

Gilad Sharon was investigated by a National Fraud Unit concerning illegal 1999 Likud

Likud

Likud is the major center-right List of political parties in Israel in Israel. It was founded in 1973 by Menachem Begin, largely as the "direct ideological descendant" of the Herut, in an alliance with several other right-wing and liberal parties....
campaign contributions, and a related loan given to his family by businessman Cyril Kern.

He has recently been ordered to hand over paperwork detailing his Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n bank account as well as personal audio tape recordings, to the police investigating the Greek Island

Greek island affair

The Greek island affair was an Israel political scandal involving David Appel, Ariel Sharon, at the time a minister in the Likud party, and others close to Sharon....
and Cyril Kern loan affairs.

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Gilad Sharon ( ; b. 1966) is the son of Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon

Prime Minister of Israel

Israel

Omri Sharon

Omri Sharon is the son of former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon and a former Likud and Kadima member of Knesset....
is a former member of Knesset

Knesset

Likud

Austria

Greek island affair

The Greek island affair was an Israel political scandal involving David Appel, Ariel Sharon, at the time a minister in the Likud party, and others close to Sharon....
and Cyril Kern loan affairs. He refused, citing the possibility of self-incrimination

Self-incrimination

Self-incrimination is the act of accusing oneself of a crime for which a person can then be prosecuted. Self-incrimination can occur either directly or indirectly: directly, by means of interrogation where information of a self-incriminatory nature is disclosed; indirectly, when information of a self-incriminatory nature is disclosed voluntar...
. Similar investigations into this matter have failed due to parliamentary immunity

Parliamentary immunity

Parliamentary immunity, also known as legislative immunity, is a system in which members of the parliament or legislature are granted partial immunity from prosecution....
.

Although it is possible that these documents incriminating Gilad Sharon could not be used against him, they could be used against other suspects, including his father. Ariel Sharon's other son, Likud MK Omri Sharon, is suspected of being the mastermind behind setting up the network of shell companies that amassed the illegal campaign donations.

The aforementioned Greek Island Affair involves attempts by David Appel

David Appel

David Appel is an Israeli businessman, general contractor, and Likud party activist....
to purchase an island near the coast of Athens

Athens

Athens , the Capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the List of cities by time of continuous habitation, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
for the purpose of building a multimillion-dollar resort complex.

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Cutting off all humanitarian supplies to Gaza Strip

Sharon expressed the view that Israel had no responsibility for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip

Gaza Strip

The Gaza Strip is a coastal strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Egypt on the south-west and Israel on the south, east and north....
. In a column on the website of the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot Sharon called on Israel to cease completely allowing shipments of humanitarian supplies to pass into Gaza. Sharon wrote that Gaza is "like a devilish child that insists on biting the hand that feeds it. Well, this monstrous baby is not ours. We are not responsible for it." Sharon asserted that Palestinians were "cutting off their own oxygen supply with their own hands." He stated that "the Egyptians" should "feed their destructive protégé and its suicidal tendencies." Sharon wrote that "Had all of Gaza’s residents decided to jump off the roof as a protest against us, would we send our firefighters to bring them down even at the price of our firefighters’ lives? Had the Palestinians decided to drown themselves at sea, would we send teams of lifesavers to bring them back to shore even if the lifesavers were shot at? Obviously not."