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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


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.

A woman prays during the evacuation of Gush Katif in 2005.

'Ariel Sharon ignored IDF brass's opposition to Gaza withdrawal'

Maj. Gen. (res.) Yair Naveh served as GOC Central Command during Sharon's tenure as prime minister.

Then-prime minister Ariel Sharon speaks to his cabinet in Jerusalem on September 25, 2005

Ariel Sharon's son: My father would have responded to Gaza rocket fire with full force

Gilad Sharon says his father's choice to disengage from Gaza saved hundreds of Israeli lives.

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

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