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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.

|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.

|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.

|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.

|ByZVIKA KLEIN

Saving the remnants of Jewish life in Brest

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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019ByPAULA SLIER
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.

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019ByDENNIS A. ROSS, DAVID MAKOVSKY
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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
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.

MARCH 1, 2019ByGILAD SHARON
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.

JANUARY 24, 2019ByILANIT CHERNICK
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.

NOVEMBER 30, 2018ByGIL HOFFMAN
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

JULY 23, 2018ByAMY SPIRO
Sacha Baron Cohen in his new Showtime series Who is America

Top 10 things to do: GRIEF-STRICKEN

The JPost culture guide for the week to come.

MAY 3, 2018ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Scene from the film Pele – Birth of a Legend

Netanyahu spars with former Shin Bet head over security for sons

The grown children of Ehud Olmert and Ariel Sharon did not get the same level of security when their fathers were prime ministers.

JANUARY 5, 2018ByHERB KEINON
Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu with family, Sara Avner (left) and Yair.

Jerusalem junction to be named after deceased spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef

Other streets to be named after former generals, military heroes ahead of Israel's 70th Independence Day.

DECEMBER 24, 2017ByUDI SHAHAM
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