Sharon was born Ariel Scheinerman in the Sharon Valley in 1928, in a Palestine still under a British mandate. His parents, Shmuel and Devorah, were farmers - Zionist emigres from Russia.

He was also an aide to the late Prime Minister Ariel Sharon when he was a member of the Knesset ... Leiter, who will replace ...

Leiter’s son Moshe was killed in Gaza last year; Netanyahu told the family’s story in his speech to a joint session of ...

Lebanon – along with Syria, Iraq, and Palestine – were born as countries with borders ... the expansion of the war by then-Minister of Defense Ariel Sharon and most particularly his support ...

Leiter, who was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania ... during his tenure as finance minister and working as an aide to the late ...

He made more than 20,000 network broadcasts and interviewed prominent Middle East figures like Golda Meir, Yitzhak Rabin and Ariel Sharon. Born in Katowice, Poland, Wassertheil was on a steamship ...

Netanyahu and Gallant have often been at odds during the ongoing Gaza conflict, but the prime minister had delayed removing ...

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Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed US-born academic Yechiel Leiter as Israel's next ambassador to the United States. Leiter, ...

Israel's Ariel Sharon, a decisive military commander and divisive prime minister, died Saturday. He had been in a coma since 2006. He was 85 years old. Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni edged ...

The tributes and praise from various world leaders, including US President Barack Obama and Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt, for Israeli war criminal Ariel Sharon who died on January 11, are vile ...