Doctors announced that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will not return to politics after suffering a stroke Wednesday night, signaling the end of an era in Israeli politics since he took office in ...

JERUSALEM - Former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, the trailblazing warrior-statesman who stunned Arab foes with his dramatic turnarounds, died on Saturday aged 85, after eight years in a coma ...

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 ...

Ariel Sharon was Israel — with all of its gumption, innovation, determination, virtues and faults. He was a man of extremes, both as a warrior and as a Prime Minister. He manifested the quintessential ...

President Barack Obama’s statement on the passing of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon: “On behalf of the American people, Michelle and I send our deepest condolences to the family of former ...

Shortly after the eruption of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000 - an uprising allegedly, though not actually, triggered by an infamous Ariel Sharon walkabout atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem - ...

MARTIN INDYK, director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution; former U.S. ambassador to Israel who worked closely with Sharon Sharon came to believe that ensuring ...

Ariel Sharon's turbulent military career set the stage for his role as a somewhat unlikely Israeli prime minister. James Bennet, former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times, tells Melissa ...

Tuesday afternoon, Ariel Sharon was elected prime minister of Israel. Here's why it's not as bad as you think. It's time to stop being optimistic and to start being realistic. Now is not the time for ...

A major hemorrhagic stroke led to a coma that has lasted nearly five years. Nov. 14, 2010— -- Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon -- who has been in a coma for nearly five years -- was ...