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

My Israeli Journey one of the most accurate, non-academic records of the years in which Mofaz served in the IDF and in his post-army service to his country.

MARCH 21, 2026|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Shaul Mofaz at a Kadima rally, 2009.

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

The move follows government approval on Wednesday for the construction of 764 housing units across three settlements in the West Bank.

DECEMBER 16, 2025|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM, REUTERS

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.

SEPTEMBER 29, 2025|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.

AUGUST 9, 2025|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

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.

AUGUST 1, 2025ByZVIKA KLEIN

A GIRL is evacuated from Neveh Dekalim, Aug. 2005.

Love among the yurts, and the charm of 'Too Much': What to watch on TV in Israel

Check out the series, movies and shows hitting Israel's screens this week.

JULY 18, 2025ByHANNAH BROWN

A woman watches tv; illustrative.

Lebanon’s long overdue reckoning - opinion

Hezbollah’s claims about Israel's colonial ambitions in Lebanon do not stand the test of Israel-Lebanon’s history.

JULY 10, 2025ByROBERT RABIL

HEZBOLLAH LEADER Sheikh Naim Qassem delivers an address earlier this year. Recently he affirmed that ‘liberation is a duty, no matter how long it takes.’

We need to talk about the two state solution - opinion

Establishing a Palestinian state has been a feature of Israeli rhetoric since the 1990s, and the majority of prime ministers have expressed willingness to agree to it, under certain conditions.

MARCH 4, 2024ByELIE PODEH

THEN-PRESIDENT Shimon Peres and then-prime minister Ehud Olmert attend a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, 2009. Peres and Olmert advocated for an agreement with the Palestinians and the Arab world, the writer notes.

Returning to Gaza is a big mistake, calls are disturbing - editorial

Calls to return to Gaza settlements are divisive amid current warfare in Gaza and the costs of October 7.

JANUARY 30, 2024ByJPOST EDITORIAL

OPPONENTS OF Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s disengagement plan face IDF troops as they secure the fence of Kfar Maimon in July 2005 after police blocked them from marching to the Gush Katif communities to protest against their demolition.

Smotrich's vision: From yeshiva bocher to architect of West Bank settlement surge

Smotrich's fantasies are best played out in that venue, not in public life.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023BySTANLEY RINGLER

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich

Paradigms will need to shift for Sderot to be reborn - analysis

A few months ago, only those considered on the far-right would talk about resettling Gaza. Now, the idea is taking hold.

OCTOBER 15, 2023ByHERB KEINON

Israeli police explosive experts survey the remains of a private house after it was hit by a rocket launched from the Gaza Strip into Israel, in Sderot, southern Israel October 15, 2023.

Raanan Gissin, best known as Sharon's spokesman, passes away at 74

A frequent presence on international television channels, the gravel-voiced Gissin with the bushy black eyebrows cast a formidable figure.

JUNE 26, 2023ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

Raanan Gissin, US Embassy in Israel, July 4th 2015.

Ariel Sharon: The complex legacy of Israel’s warrior-statesman

Sharon’s initial reputation was not entirely undeserved, although few doubted his generalship.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023ByMARK REGEV

THEN-UN secretary-general Kofi Annan meets with then-prime minister Ariel Sharon at UN Headquarters, in September 2005. Sharon’s post-disengagement UN visit saw world leaders lining up to be photographed with him.

President Herzog honors the memory of Ariel Sharon

In 2006, while serving as prime minister after his military career, Sharon suffered a stroke which ultimately put him into an eight-year-long coma.

FEBRUARY 12, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

President Isaac Herzog participates in memorial for the late former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and his wife Lily.