[Card. Political] Ariel Sharon Minister of Construction and Housing]

Published by [Israel]

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Ariel Sharon was minster of construction and housing between 1990 and 1992, so this card is over 30 years old. 155 x 105 mm. Bottom of card says, in Hebrew: "Makhal HaLikud with warm greetings A. Sharon." Ariel Sharon, also known by his diminutive Arik (26 February 1928 - 11 January 2014) was an Israeli general and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Israel from March 2001 until April 2006. Born in Kfar Malal in Mandatory Palestine to Russian Jewish immigrants, he rose in the ranks of the Israeli Army from its creation in 1948, participating in the 1948 War of Independence as platoon commander of the Alexandroni Brigade and took part in several battles. Sharon was instrumental in the creation of Unit 101 and the reprisal operations, as well as in the 1956 Suez Crisis, the Six-Day War of 1967, the War of Attrition, and the Yom-Kippur War of 1973. He was a great field commander but with faults to spare. Upon leaving the military, Sharon entered politics, joining the Likud party, and served in a number of ministerial posts in Likud-led governments in 1977-92 and 1996-99. As Minister of Defense, he directed the 1982 Lebanon War. From the 1970s through to the 1990s, Sharon championed construction of Israeli settlements in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip. He became the leader of the Likud in 1999. He subsequently defeated Ehud Barak in the election and served as Israel's prime minister from 2001 to 2006. He pushed for Israel's unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005, uprooting Jewish villages he helped create, thinking it would bring peace. Instead it brought to Israel the massacres, rapes and destruction of October 7th. In 2005 he left Likud to form a new party, Kadima. He had been expected to win the next election and was widely interpreted as planning on "clearing Israel out of most of Judea and Samaria, which would have been catastrophic, but he suffered a stroke on 4 January 2006 and was kept on life support in a vegetative state until his death in 2014. Seller Inventory # 016687

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Title: [Card. Political] Ariel Sharon Minister of ...

Publisher: [Israel]

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Condition: Very Good

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