Mourners at the fresh grave of Naftali Fraenkel, one of three Israeli teens murdered, allegedly by members of the Hamas-linked Qawasmeh family of Hebron. / Getty Images Now that the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers have been found and laid to rest, the crisis is rapidly turning into a wickedly complex, five-sided tug-of-war…
British lawmaker David Ward has raised Jewish ire again for a tweet following the death of Ariel Sharon. “Sharon’s death makes you think. The brutal, genocidal treatment of Jews must never be forgotten but … the Palestinians were not responsible,” Ward tweeted on Jan. 13, two days after Sharon’s death. One tweet in response to…
If today has proven one thing, it is that time can be a healer here in Israel. Imagine that Ariel Sharon had died the day after his stroke in 2006, instead of clinging on to life, unable to communicate. On the personal level, it would have probably been far easier for his family. But on…
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres following the funeral for Ariel Sharon. Biden and Netanyahu held a private dinner Monday evening following a meeting that included U.S. and Israeli officials. The leaders did not speak to reporters before the meeting and no statement was issued…
This week, all of Israel and not a few world leaders gathered to mark the passing of former prime minister Ariel Sharon. Cartoonist Eli Valley offers his own unique graphic take on the much-memorialized man.
The Israeli Air Force launched an aerial attack against the Gaza Strip on Monday evening after two rockets from Gaza struck an area close to former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s funeral. The IDF targeted a military compound in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza and another in the southern part of the strip. Both…
Israel buried former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his family farm on Monday, celebrating the military achievements of a man seen as a war hero at home but as a war criminal by many in the Arab world. Eulogised first in a ceremony in Jerusalem, and later in the green fields of his southern estate,…
Jewish organizations in the United States and around the world expressed condolences on the death of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. “His legacy is a more secure State of Israel, safe on its borders and resolved to put an end to the campaign of Palestinian terrorism once and for all. It is not only…
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