Israeli state prosecutors are to decide within several weeks whether to indict Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in a scandal in which a leading businessman has been charged with trying to bribe him.
Citing unnamed sources at the Justice Ministry, Israel Radio said prosecutors were considering whether to charge Mr Sharon along with his son Gilad and Vice Premier Ehud Olmert, a close ally.
A Justice Ministry spokeswoman declined comment on the report.
Mr David Appel has been charged with employing Mr Gilad Sharon and paying him $3 million intended to influence his father when he was a cabinet minister in a previous government.
Mr Sharon has faced a series of funding scandals but denied all wrongdoing.
But analysts said that while the indictment would tarnish Mr Sharon's image, it was unlikely to loosen his grip on power because prosecutors had not presented any evidence showing that he knowingly accepted money for political favours.