Ariel Sharon Warrior on Several Fronts
1982: Ariel with his wife Lily and one of his sons at the Suez Canal.
Adversaries: Sharon with Palestinian leader Arafat at the Wye summit in October 1998.
Sharon, the war hero, shown here in 1973 during his legendary thrust across the Suez Canal during the Yom-Kippur war.
Towards the end of the 1970s Sharon worked as agriculture minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Menachem Begin (l.)
Sharon, in 1871 as Major General, speaks to Prime Minister David Ben Gurion during a tour of Israeli army posts along the Israeli-Egyptian border.
In 1982 Sharon was questioned by a Judicial Inquiry Commission. He had ordered the invasion of Lebanon that lead to the massacre of Palestinian refugees.
Sharon (l.) 1976 together with the then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Major General Adem Yekutiel on the Sinai Peninsula in 1976.
Sharon observes fighting on the Sinai Penisula during the 1967 Six Day War. He commanded a tank squadron.
Together with Lieutenant General Haim Bar Lev (3rd L) and Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan during the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin, Israeli Minister of Internal Affairs Yoseph Burg,Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and the Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon walk to the funeral of assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat October 10, 1981 in Cairo.
The Six-Day War: Sharon (l.) with Major-General Yeshayahu Gavish in the Negev Desert.
Prime Minister Sharon at the Israeli-Palestinian border in 2003.
Sharon in the crosshairs of Hamas militants.
The prime minister was protected by a tunnel made of security glass during a visit to Gaza in 2004.
Sharon left his own Likud Party to found a new party from scratch -- then went on the campaign trail as its leading candidate.
With Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a peace-talk summit in Egypt, February 2005.
Sharon and President Bush have met several times. Going by this photograph, at least, the two politicians got along fine -- even if they had different opinions on the "road map" for peace.
Sharon was always in danger, and always surrounded by bodyguards. Here he's seen on the Temple Mount, and shortly after this visit, street battles broke out in East Jerusalem -- prelude to a new spiral of violence. Palestinians considered Sharon's appearance here a provocation.
