(CNN) — Ariel Sharon, whose half century as a military and political leader in Israel was marked with victories and controversies, died Saturday after eight years in a coma, Israeli Army Radio reported. Sharon was 85. Sharon died at Sheba Medical Center in the Tel Aviv suburb of Tel Hashomer. The Israeli statesman was a national […]

Prime Minister Netayahu just announced a nationwide curfew in Israel forbidding people to gather beyond their immediate family for the Passover Seder on Wednesday night. This unprecedented move makes it a crime to leave one’s home between 6pm Wednesday night until the following morning. Never since the days of the first Passover in Egypt have […]