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President Reuven Rivlin pays his respects at a memorial ceremony marking two years since the death of late prime minister Ariel Sharon on February 26, 2016, at the family's Negev ranch. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
February 26, 2016, 10:33 pm
Rivlin remembers Sharon as man of principle, bold leader
At memorial to mark 2nd anniversary of PM’s death, president hails ‘brave commander ready to sacrifice everything’ for Israel
By Tamar Pileggi
Ariel Sharon stands near the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur war. (photo credit: GPO/ Flash 90)
January 28, 2014, 10:46 am
Government weighs seizing papers kept illegally by Ariel Sharon
Israel’s 11th prime minister stored state files at his home, presumably as leverage in his legal and political battles
By ToI Staff
President Shimon Peres, after laying a wreath for Ariel Sharon, left flowers on Lily Sharon's grave (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/ GPO/ Flash 90)
January 13, 2014, 8:24 pm
A nation bids farewell to ‘the greatest fighter since Samson’
Israelis from all walks of life, and all stations of Ariel Sharon’s storied life, converge on a small Negev hill to pay their last respects and bury a man who ‘was like no one else in the world’
By Mitch Ginsburg
IDF major generals lay former premier Ariel Sharon in his grave in a military burial at Sharon's western Negev Sycamore Farm, January 13, 2014. (photo credit: screen shot/Channel 2)
January 13, 2014, 5:51 pm
Ariel Sharon, audacious general and decisive prime minister, laid to rest
‘You returned home,’ son Gilad eulogizes, as 11th PM is seen off by top echelons of gov’t, army and foreign dignitaries led by Vice President Biden
By Haviv Rettig Gur and AP
Then opposition leader Ariel Sharon seen at the Mugrabi Gate en route to the Temple Mount, on 28 September 2000. Sharon visited with an escort of over 1,000 police officers. (Flash90)
January 12, 2014, 11:06 pm
Sharon was reviled by Arabs, but that’s not the whole story
To his death, he was widely hated as a war criminal, but some who came into direct contact with him conceived a certain grudging appreciation
By Avi Issacharoff
Ariel Sharon working on his Sycamore Farm in the Negev (Photo credit: Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
January 12, 2014, 8:13 pm
Sharon’s funeral, adjacent to Gaza, presents security headache
Iron Dome deployment adjusted to provide maximal protection for Israeli and foreign leaders, led by Biden, at Sycamore Farm
By Marissa Newman
Members of the Knesset guard carry the coffin of Ariel Sharon outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, Monday, January 13, 2014 (photo credit: AP/Bernat Armangue)
January 3, 2014, 7:55 am
Prime minister Ariel Sharon laid to rest at his farm in southern Israel
Sharon eulogized at Negev funeral, with Netanyahu, Biden and other dignitaries in attendance; emotional Gilad Sharon mourns father who shaped ‘the ethos of the nation’; army chief Gantz says the IDF ‘marches to the sound of your footsteps’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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