BEIT-UL-MOQADDAS (AFP) - Israeli police said on Thursday they will decide within days whether to recommend that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert be charged in several different cases of suspected graft.

Senior police officials met on Thursday to examine the evidence in three probes against Olmert, who announced in July he would step down following a public uproar over the graft suspicions.
""The material will be examined by the head of the investigation department. The police opinion (on the indictment) will be brought together with all the findings before the state prosecution,"" a police source told AFP.
""We will decide whether to recommend indictments in several or all of the cases within days,"" he said on condition of anonymity.
Israeli media said that police was likely to recommend indicting Olmert on a number of charges, including bribery and money laundering.
While police and the state prosecution can recommend legal steps against a premier, it is the attorney general who decides whether to press formal charges.
Olmert has been questioned several times in past weeks over suspicions he had accepted cash-stuffed envelopes from a U.S. businessman to finance election campaigns and a lavish lifestyle before he became premier in 2006.
He is also suspected of having billed the same overseas trips several times over, allegedly using the ill-gotten gains to finance private trips for himself and his family.
In the third case, Olmert is suspected of trying to steer the sale of Bank Leumi towards a friend, Australian real estate magnate Frank Lowey, when he was trade and industry minister between 2003 and 2006.
Olmert, 62, insists he is innocent of the allegations of wrongdoing in the 13 years before he took office in 2006, when he also served as mayor of Beit-ul-Moqaddas.
But he announced on July 30 that he would step down after his centrist Kadima party holds an internal leadership election in mid-September.