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- At the outset of the Yom Kippur War of October 1973, Sharon was recalled to active military service. On October 16 he led the decisive Israeli counterattack against Egypt westward across the Suez Canal, a battle that marked a turning point in the war.
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Sharon's complex ground maneuver is regarded as a decisive move in the Yom Kippur War, undermining the Egyptian Second Army and encircling the Egyptian Third Army. This move was regarded by many Israelis as the turning point of the war in the Sinai front.
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Sharon was born, on a rainy February 26, 1928, to a violin-playing agronomist father and a legendarily tenacious mother. His father, Samuil Scheinerman, was from Brest-Litovsk and had been raised a Zionist. His father’s father, Mordechai, had been best friends with Menachem Begin’s father, and the two had broken down the door of the local synagogue...
In the summer of 1945, Sharon took part in the Haganah’s squad leader training course, far from the eyes of the British, deep in the desert. He thought he had done well but his commanders graduated him with the rank of “probationary corporal.” That status was erased during the war. Shortly after the November 29, 1947 vote that authorized the partit...
Sharon was a family man. In stark opposition to many other Israeli generals and leaders, he was not a womanizer. Throughout his life, even as prime minister, he always rose to his feet when a woman entered the room. But in mid-life, over the span of five-and-a-half years, his personal life was ripped to shreds. He first saw his wife, Margalit (Gali...
Sharon founded the Likud. But he spent his first decade in politics serving under Menachem Begin. The two could not have been more different: lawyer and farmer, ideologue and pragmatist. When they first met in 1969, with Sharon still in uniform and looking for a way into politics, he was awed by Begin’s “extraordinarily powerful presence” and admit...
May 13, 2024 · Ariel Sharon (born February 26, 1928, Kefar Malal, Palestine [now in Israel]—died January 11, 2014, Ramat Gan, Israel) was an Israeli general and politician, whose public life was marked by brilliant but controversial military achievements and political policies.
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Oct 8, 2018 · The war, known to Israelis as the Yom Kippur War, and to Arabs as the October War, ushered in a new reality in the Arab world and changed the face of US foreign policy towards the Middle...
Nov 22, 2011 · Sharon resigned from the army in June 1972 but was recalled to active military service in the 1973 Yom Kippur War to command an armored division. He led the crossing of the Suez Canal which helped secure an Israeli victory in the war and eventual peace with Egypt.
Jul 31, 2016 · Israeli army Southern Command General Ariel Sharon with Defense Minister Moshe Dayan during the Yom Kippur War in October 1973 on the western bank of the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Sep 29, 2017 · Defense Minister Moshe Dayan, left, and Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon, second from right, who suffered a slight head wound, visit Israeli bridgehead on the West Bank of the Suez Canal with other staff...
