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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


Putin: Israel's Sharon warned me against trusting anyone in Middle East

Vladimir Putin reveals all in a new Showtime documentary airing this week.

Russian President Vladimir Putin

‘Secrets did not die’ with former PM adviser

Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, tended to send Segal to defend them on television whenever scandals broke.

Dov Weisglass (L) looks on as former prime minister Ariel Sharon speaks at the Madison Hotel in Washington in 2002

‘Israeli-Palestinian peace isn't a real estate deal’

Gilad Sharon, the son of the late PM Ariel Sharon, doesn't believe that the current state of affairs allows for a development of a potential peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians.

The sons of former prime minister Ariel Sharon, Gilad (L) and Omri (2nd L)

Our World: The agenda for the Trump-Abbas meeting

Israeli society was nearly torn apart in the one year and eight months between Sharon’s surprise announcement and the expulsion of Gaza’s Jews in August 2005.

Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas arrives to delivers a speech during the United Nations Human Rights Council on February 27, 2017 in Geneva

Netanyahu response to UN vote isolating Israel, Ariel Sharon confidant says

Dov Weisglass slams Netanyahu's moves to punish states that voted for anti-settlement resolution.

Dov Weisglass (L) looks on as former prime minister Ariel Sharon speaks at the Madison Hotel in Washington in 2002

Sharon letter to Saudi king revealed as crown prince slams Israel at UN

A framed copy of the letter was presented to the Babylonian Jewry Heritage Museum in Or Yehuda at a ceremony earlier this month.

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

When politicians get sick: Is Hillary Clinton's health like Ariel Sharon's?

“Netanyahu can’t get away with taking a two-week vacation. But if the American president doesn’t, his people will be worried.”

US Democratic presidential candidate and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivers the keynote address at the Brookings Institution Saban Forum at the Willard Hotel in Washington December 6, 2015.

Ariel Sharon refused to go to bomb shelter on 9/11

Sharon remained calm as he prepared for any eventuality of what could happen to Israel following the attacks in the US.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon talks with New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani as they look out over the wreckage of the World Trade Center attacks site in 2001, in New York.

Ariel Sharon's son joins Likud

Former PM's son Gilad may be planning Knesset run.

The sons of former prime minister Ariel Sharon, Gilad (L) and Omri (2nd L)

The strange case of the mezuzah, Elie Wiesel and Rabbi 'Miki' Mark

July 2 made for one of those moments when real life is “stranger than fiction.”

Elie Wiesel attends dedication ceremony at Otniel Yeshiva along with Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark and Ariel Sharon