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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

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.

APRIL 25, 2017ByCAROLINE B. GLICK
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.

DECEMBER 27, 2016ByJPOST.COM STAFF
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.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016ByHERB KEINON
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.”

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN
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.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN
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.

AUGUST 18, 2016ByGIL HOFFMAN
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.”

JULY 6, 2016ByTOVAH LAZAROFF
Elie Wiesel attends dedication ceremony at Otniel Yeshiva along with Rabbi Michael “Miki” Mark and Ariel Sharon

Going all the way

JUNE 16, 2016ByILAN EVYATAR
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman addresses the media in Jerusalem

Arik and Meir

From the groves of Gaza to the Mossad

MARCH 23, 2016ByGILAD SHARON
Meir Dagan

Arik and Lily: The valley and the mountain

In every heart, there is room for only one great pain.

MARCH 3, 2016ByGILAD SHARON
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