Last year, he wrung settlements out of mutual fund companies that he contended had taken advantage of small investors.
He wants to pull Israeli settlements out of most of the West Bank, leaving Israel's security barrier around some of the biggest settlements.
The settlers were determined to punish him for clearing Israel's settlements out of Gaza and to prevent another withdrawal from the West Bank.
"You can't sweep all the good, the pro-competitive, pro-consumer settlements out with the bad," Ms. Jaeger said in an interview on Monday.
Mr. Sharon's actions were designed to protect his plan to pull Israeli settlements out of Gaza, which he cannot do politically under fire.
The previous highest award a court has made for breach of privacy was £5,000, although there have been several cases of higher settlements out of court.
In a poll last month, just 37% of Israelis supported the main plank of Mr Olmert's election platform: his "convergence" plan to pull Israeli settlements out of the West Bank unilaterally.
But by slowly re-ascending Israel's dangerous political ladder, he emerged as prime minister, clearing Jewish settlements out of the Gaza Strip and thus, in the words of his own spokesman, putting any hope of a Palestinian state into "formaldehyde".
Mr Sharon appears to be taking pre-emptive action: earlier this month, he promised to pull the Israeli settlements out of Gaza.The Gaza settlers protest that a pull-out would encourage terrorism by rewarding it, that it would bruise the morale of the settler movement, and that it would destroy enterprises that, for example, grow 95% of Israel's insect-free lettuce.
There are plans to add a seasoned veteran of "complex forensic investigations" to the team, but one man does not a Scotland Yard make.Then there is the decision to take settlements out of the RDC's remit and hand them over to senior FSA executives, encouraging early settlement by establishing a fixed discount from any penalty imposed.
It would be a government with a single agenda: to realise Mr Sharon's plan to pull troops and push settlements out of Gaza and parts of the northern West Bank late next year.The prime minister and opposition leader share political needs.
