Research topic: Ariel Sharon

Ariel Sharon , 1928-, Israeli general and politician, b. Kfar Malal. He gained attention for his superb military leadership in the 1948 and 1956 Arab-Israeli Wars and was made a major general months before the 1967 war. In the 1973 conflict Israeli forces under his command captured Egypt's 3d Army. That year, Sharon resigned from the army, helped establish the right-wing Likud party, and won a seat in the Israeli parliament. He served as security adviser to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (1975-77), as minister of agriculture (1977-81), and became defense minister in 1981 in the second ... Read more