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Israel grants legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, including two vacated in 2005 disengagement

The move follows government approval on Wednesday for the construction of 764 housing units across three settlements in the West Bank.

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.
ARIEL SHARON visits the Temple Mount in 2000.

How the Second Intifada built the walls that failed on October 7 - analysis

THEN-PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon addresses the cabinet at a meeting in 2004, ahead of a vote on approving a Gaza pullout. Let’s not forget a key cause of our ongoing disaster – Sharon’s 2005 ‘disengagement’ from Gaza, the writer charges.

The Gaza Disengagement: Sharon's strategic mistake and its cost – opinion

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

It began in Neveh Dekalim: How the Gaza Disengagement led to judicial reform


Generals in Israeli politics are no longer hot commodities - opinion

Perhaps voters appreciate that despite Israel’s pervasive security challenges, bravery and proficiency in battle do not in themselves provide the experience for successful national leadership.

 GADI EISENKOT waves at the launch of the National Unity Party election campaign, in Tel Aviv, earlier this month.

Gilad Sharon: From my parents’ memorial service

I muse over friendship and love: Parents’ love for their children, love between a man and a woman, the evolution of love, how it is born out of natural selection and to what proportions it can grow.

 GILAD (left) and Omri (second from left) Sharon attend their father’s funeral at the former prime minister’s ranch in the Negev, January 2014.

Reuven Adler: My brilliant friend

Reuven Adler was close to the Sharon family for decades. He was a sharp, unerring, and brutal analyst, a winner to the core and someone who didn't quit in bad times.

 REUVEN ADLER, one of the founders of the Adler-Chomsky advertising agency, poses for a photo in 2004.

On This Day: Then-prime minister Ariel Sharon suffers severe stroke

Ariel Sharon was prime minister of Israel from 2001 until 2006.

PRIME MINISTER Ariel Sharon in 2006.

Is a nuclear Iran an existential threat?

A selection from Haim Ramon’s upcoming book provides his inside look into history as a longtime minister

 THEN-PRIME MINISTER Benjamin  Netanyahu delivers a statement to the  press regarding the Iranian nuclear  program, September 2019.

Can Biden overcome his Afghanistan mistake? - opinion

President Joe Biden's handling of the Afghanistan crisis may place him on equal footing with other historical leaders who never recovered from their big missteps.

 US President Joe Biden returns a salute as he arrives at Fort McNair on his way back to the White House to deliver a statement on Afghanistan, in Washington, U.S., August 16, 2021.

Sharon peace may have delayed legal case, Bibi’s won’t – why not?

There are many crucial differences between Sharon and Netanyahu’s cases, not the least of which is that Sharon died mid-investigation.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu with members of his legal team at the beginning of his corruption trial at the Jerusalem District Court in May.

Israel Katz is going up the down escalator

After decades of steady climbing Finance Minister Israel Katz eyes the political peak from the brink of the economic abyss

Israel Katz chats with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting

Jerusalem Post top 5 stories of 2014

As the year comes to a close, JPost looks back on the biggest stories that shaped 2014, and whose influence will undoubtedly affect the events of 2014

Palestinian militants from the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestinian (PFLP) take part in a military show in Gaza City September 2

Ariel Sharon's son, Gilad: 'All is foreseen, freedom of choice is granted'

What’s the connection between quantum physics and a sheep farmer? There is none but it still applies.

ARIEL SHARON stands on the banks of the Suez Canal in Egypt.