Vice President Joe Biden praised the political courage of late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on Monday and called him a “complex man” at a memorial ceremony for the statesman who died Saturday.

During the eight years that Ariel Sharon lay in a hospital bed, sustained by a feeding tube and turned at regular intervals to prevent bedsores, his great body shrank and his legacy slowly shifted.

Israel goes to the polls today, half-remembering and half forgetful that the man who called these elections is still unconscious in the hospital. His photograph is long gone from the newspapers; the ...

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 ...

(Haaretz) — For the past eight years, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been lying comatose in Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center, after he sufferred a severe stroke. For much of this time ...

JERUSALEM NO ONE INSIDE ISRAEL wonders why Prime Minister Ariel Sharon abruptly cancelled a trip to Washington long scheduled for November 11-13. Everyone here knows that Sharon, at the urging of ...

Until recently, Ariel Sharon was widely dismissed in Israel as a holdover from the country's frontier era, when ends and means were blurred and conflict was a way of life. Even admirers conceded that ...

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma for nearly eight years has taken a turn for the worse and is now in critical condition. Sharon, who is 85, suffered a debilitating ...

Freedom of speech and the press are cherished principles of a free society but are also the refuge of many scoundrels. And even in that context, that freedom should not be constrained ...

Ariel Sharon, one of the most influential figures in Israeli history, passed away on Saturday after eight years in a stroke-induced coma. The life of the polarizing former general and prime minister ...