Ariel sharon

On this day: Second Intifada triggered following Ariel Sharon's visit to Temple Mount

In total, more than 1,000 Israelis were killed by Palestinian terrorist attacks, which included suicide bombings, shootings, stabbings, and car ramming.

Palestinians hurl rocks at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank town of Hebron October 16, 2000.
Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, July 6, 2026

Will Israel's 2026 election represent Liberman’s swan song? – opinion

Shaul Mofaz at a Kadima rally, 2009.

'My Israeli Journey': Shaul Mofaz recounts battles, politics, and family - review

An Israeli flag flutters, with Ma'aleh Adumim is visible in the background, in the West Bank, August 14, 2025.

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


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.

Saving the remnants of Jewish life in Brest

The Together Plan seeks to create a memorial wall from the headstones of destroyed graves.

Jewish tombstones in Brest, known to Jews as Brisk

What Israel still needs to learn from Ariel Sharon

Sharon was not an ideologue but a pragmatist. As circumstances changed, he adjusted.

MOSHE DAYAN and Ariel Sharon in 1973. The trickle became a deluge after the Six Day War

Under pressure from right, Netanyahu to make history in Hebron today

  Former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and former defense minister Shimon Peres on the stairwell leading into Hebron's Tomb of the Patriarchs in 1976.

Believing in our right to the Land of Israel doesn’t make anyone a fascist

Words delivered at the memorial service for Ariel and Lily Sharon, February 15, 2019.

Gilad Sharon speaks at the memorial service for Ariel and Lily Sharon.

Gilad Sharon barred from running in Likud primaries

The request was rejected because Sharon still had three months left and 11 days to complete the training period as a Likud member, and he did not receive approval from PM Benjamin Netanyahu.

Gilad Sharon

Floating the fall guy: When will Netanyahu call elections?

Netanyahu does not have a deputy or a vice prime minister. Perhaps the closest he has to that is the minister who was sent by Netanyahu to Ben-Gurion Airport to greet US Vice President Mike Pence.

US President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walk to the Oval Office on March 5, 2018

Sacha Baron Cohen exploits Americans' fetishization of Israel

'Who is America' shows how little some of Israel's biggest supporters know about the Jewish state

Sacha Baron Cohen in his new Showtime series Who is America