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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


Books: Israel's Security Men

How Moshe Dayan, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Barak transitioned from military careers to the political arena.

Moshe Dayan (left) and Ariel Sharon on the western side of the Suez Canal in October 1973.

Moshav baggage

The burden of pain shouldered for so many years, baggage that seemed long ago to have been left at the side of the road, made one last appearance before going the way of those who carried it.

Tree at Park Ariel Sharon

Sharon’s ghost returns to haunt Obama

Obama is going to find it impossible to impose his land swap proposals, if Oren has any say.

Palestinians walk near an opening in Israel's controversial barrier in the east Jerusalem neighbourhood of A-tur

IN PHOTOS: Springtime in Park Ariel Sharon

Park hosts conference on the use of native plants to rehabilitate landscapes.

Park Ariel Sharon

PM at Sharon memorial: Arik understood the Iranian regime

Peres criticizes Netanyahu for agreeing to address Congress.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu lays a wreath at the grave of Ariel Sharon at Sycamore Ranch in the Negev

Ariel Sharon laid to rest near Negev ranch

Former PM buried next to wife Lily in ceremony attended by thousands; Sharon's son Gilad says his father "turned the impossible into reality."

Sharon's grave at Sycamore ranch

A festival of Jewish learning reinvigorates Belarus

Once a city bustling with Jewish life, Vitebsk again witnessed the spirit and excitement of renewal at last month’s Limmud FSU gathering.

A MARCHING BAND opens the exhibition of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda’s bust in Glubokoye

Climb every mountain

Any connection between the story of former prime minister Ariel Sharon and Notzar Theater company’s ‘Har’ is purely circumstantial.

‘Har’ is a combination of three short plays written by Yaron Edelstein and directed by Dalit Milstein.

Limmud FSU to kick off festival of Jewish learning

Nonprofit helps young Russian-speaking Jews all over the world find their religious roots.

Limmud FSU Belarus conference

Media Comment: The vacuum of critique

In 2005, Israel’s media was largely exuberant about the upcoming unilateral retreat, for Sharon was implementing one of its dreams: the end of part of the “occupation”

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon addresses the nation on the disengagement from Gaza, August 15, 2005