Leaders across the world paid tribute to former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, who died Saturday at the age of 85. Figureheads in the ex-general's home country praised the hard-liner as a tough, ...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has died at 85. The Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago joins with the people of Israel and Jews worldwide in mourning the passing ...

“Ariel Sharon” lies propped up in a hospital bed, the frailty of the figure belying the larger-than-life dimensions that its namesake once personified. Sightless eyes stare ahead impassively; its ...

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 ...

JERUSALEM — Thousands of Israelis — and a few Palestinians — filed solemnly past the casket of former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Sunday to pay their last respects to a provocative leader who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

Correction appended: Jan. 12, 2014, 11:12 p.m. E.T. Under a low, slate overcast, the coffin containing the body of Ariel Sharon lay in state on Sunday on the grounds of the Israeli parliament, the ...