Before long, Omri headed the Environmental Lobby within Knesset – his political term in this position is seen by some as a golden age for the environment in Israel's history.

[1] Thanks to powerful intervention from MK Omri and his father PM Ariel Sharon, environmentalists fought off real estate developers and won a battle to develop Mount Hiriya and the surrounding agricultural lands into a sprawling public park slated to be almost three times as large as Central Park in New York.

[2] In 2006, Sharon became involved in a scandal relating to fundraising for his father's 1999 Likud leadership campaign.

[3][4] On July 26, 2005, Israeli attorney general Menachem Mazuz announced that he would indict Omri on charges of corruption.

A nine-month suspended sentence was handed down to Gavriel Manor, Sharon's associate in the affair.