Ariel sharon

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.

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM, REUTERS

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

Ariel Sharon’s Temple Mount visit sparked the Second Intifada, reshaping Israel’s security - and setting the stage for October 7.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

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

Ariel Sharon’s 2005 withdrawal from Gaza created an opportunity for Hamas to rise, leading to devastating consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians.

AUGUST 9, 2025|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

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

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

For Religious Zionists, who link Torah, people, and land, the state’s bulldozers felt like a theological betrayal.

AUGUST 1, 2025|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Netanyahu blasts Ariel Sharon at memorial marking former PM's death

PM, who quit Sharon's government to protest Gaza withdrawal, said leaving the Strip did not achieve the former premier's goals of bringing about security and peace.

FEBRUARY 29, 2016ByGIL STERN STERN HOFFMAN

Senior Likud figures snub Ariel Sharon official remembrance ceremony

After spending eight years in a coma following a stroke, Sharon passed away at the age of 85.

FEBRUARY 26, 2016ByMAARIV ONLINE

Then-premier Ariel Sharon attends a cabinet meeting in 2005

We have the only right

NOVEMBER 2, 2015ByLAWRENCE POLYAKOV

Analysis: Israel security is in the eye of the beholder

Though the statistics tell a somewhat different tale, the current spate of terrorist attacks is denting Netanyahu’s image as ‘Mr. Security.’

OCTOBER 10, 2015ByHERB KEINON

Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eizenkot and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Samaria Brigade Headquarters in the West Bank.

Archives reveal: Commanding officer blasted Ariel Sharon's Yom Kippur War 'dereliction of duty'

Defense Ministry releases archival letters in which Maj.-Gen. Shmuel Gonen calls for former PM to stand trial.

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015ByBEN HARTMAN

Ariel Sharon (2nd R) confers with comrades during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, October 10, 1973

Ariel Sharon's tractor on eBay for $20,000

Farm vehicle previously owned by late, former prime minister is up for bid on public auctioning website.

AUGUST 25, 2015ByJULIE STEIGERWALD

The tractor previously owned by late, former prime minister Ariel Sharon

This Week in Israeli History: Last Residents of Gush Katif Evicted, Guy Hever MIA and Emmanuel Moreno

AUGUST 19, 2015ByEYTAN MEIR

Former chief of staff: Ariel Sharon designed Gaza disengagement to save West Bank settlements

Former US President George W. Bush promised Sharon that the settlement blocs would be included within Israel’s final borders after revealing the Gaza disengagement plan, says Dov Weisglass.

AUGUST 16, 2015ByTOVAH LAZAROFF