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Topic: Ariel Sharon

April 25, 2013
1:48 pm

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert leaves Jerusalem District Court last July after he was cleared of charges of double-billing on trips abroad in the "Rishon Tours" case, and cleared of charges of illegally taking money from American businessman Morris Talansky. Olmert was found guilty on a third charge of breach of trust in a real estate investment case (Photo credit: Flash90)

State’s lawyers outgunned by Olmert, Liberman? Not at all, says ex-top prosecutor

If anything, argues Yehoshua Reznik, former deputy AG who secured the conviction of Aryeh Deri, cards are stacked against public figures in high-profile corruption cases

By David Horovitz

April 23, 2013
2:57 am

Ambulances at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

What Boston hospitals learned from Israel

Israeli doctors have developed trauma expertise through improvisation and bitter experience, and shared that knowledge widely

By Ben Sales

March 22, 2013
2:43 am

Female Hamas snipers take aim in a new video (photo credit: YouTube)

Hamas women shoot cardboard Sharon

Gaza’s prime minister watches fondly as his organization’s fighting females engage in target practice

By Times of Israel staff

March 13, 2013
11:35 pm

Philip Roth has won every major prize except the Nobel, and says he's retired. (Courtesy of Film Forum)

Rare return allows re-reading of reclusive Roth

As he turns 80, a new documentary — opening Wednesday in New York — examines the career of the world’s pre-eminent Jewish author

By Jordan Hoffman

February 21, 2013
5:34 pm

Ariel Sharon (right) meets Caspar W. Weinberger in Washington, 1982 (photo credit: Balcer/Wikimedia Commons)

Sharon warned Begin Israel ‘could be accused of genocide’

Archives release protocols of cabinet meetings on the findings on the ’82 Sabra and Shatila massacre

By Aaron Kalman

February 19, 2013
9:24 am

Former Mossad official and government minister Rafi Eitan (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)

‘Sharon was about to leave two-thirds of the West Bank’

Prime minister was drafting plan for a unilateral pullout when he fell ill, says his former adviser Rafi Eitan, and Netanyahu should tell Obama he’s ready for similar ‘mosaic separation’

By Elhanan Miller

February 2, 2013
8:27 pm

Eli Yishai (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)

Shas will most likely remain in opposition, says Yishai

As coalition talks begin, ultra-Orthodox leader warns centrist Lapid’s reforms will fail and his Yesh Atid party will be ‘relegated to the archives’

By Yifa Yaakov

January 29, 2013
5:21 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Bank of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer(photo credit: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO/Flash90)

Stanley Fischer resigns as Bank of Israel head

Noted economist who navigated Israel through world recession to step down in June, two years before the end of his second term

By Asher Zeiger

January 27, 2013
6:31 pm

Alon Friedman (left) and Ilan Shelef with the MRI machine on Sunday (photo credit: courtesy of Dani Machlis/BGU)

Sharon responsive to pictures of family, researchers say

Israeli and American experts find former prime minister, in a vegetative state since 2006, reacts to aural and visual stimuli

By Aaron Kalman

January 26, 2013
5:15 am

Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid leaves his home for a pre-elections workout on Tuesday, Jan. 22 (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yashuv/Flash90)

Rising political star better be ready to work up a sweat

If Yair Lapid wants to avoid the pitfalls of his centrist predecessors, he’ll have to produce concrete results at the Knesset

By Daniel Estrin

January 26, 2013
3:27 am

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90/File)

Sharon’s brain scan shows ‘positive indication’

Former aide says comatose ex-prime minister’s ‘test was routine, but the results not entirely so’

By Ron Friedman and AP

January 25, 2013
12:47 pm

Netanyahu, on election night, surrounded by party members (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

The dirty art of coalition assembly

There is inherent tension between the right person for the ministerial job and the political expediency of the nomination

By Mitch Ginsburg

January 25, 2013
11:37 am

Former prime minister Ariel Sharon (photo credit: Sharon Perry/Flash90/File)

Ariel Sharon undergoes brain scan

Hospital officials say procedure was previously scheduled

January 3, 2013
7:24 pm

File picture of Gilad Sharon, youngest son of former prime minister Ariel Sharon. (photo credit: Moshe Shai/Flash90)

Prosecution drops bribery case against son of former PM Ariel Sharon

Gilad Sharon was suspected of receiving millions on behalf of his father from South African businessman Cyril Kern

By Asher Zeiger

December 19, 2012
12:11 pm

Amnon Lipkin-Shahak in 2011 (photo credit: Meir Partush/Flash90)

Former IDF chief Amnon Lipkin-Shahak dies in Jerusalem, aged 68

Politicians mourn passing of ‘rare amalgam of military and diplomatic courage,’ praise his contribution to Israel’s security and efforts to advance peace

By Mitch Ginsburg and Elie Leshem

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