Moshe Sharett

The life of Israel's forgotten prime minister, Moshe Sharett

October 15 is the birthday of Moshe Sharett, Israel's second prime minister, who served as premier for 21 months from 1954-55.

OCTOBER 13, 2022|ByMARK REGEV

MOSHE SHARETT became prime minister in highly challenging circumstances. The Jewish state was less than six years old and Arab hostility remained omnipresent.

FORMER PRIME minister Moshe Sharett (right) and Israeli-Arab MK Amin-Salim Jarjora.

Book review: The forgotten prime minister

Sharett’s diary is a rare peek into halls of power, comical moments of a top statesman.

AUGUST 14, 2019|ByBEN FISHER

DAVID BEN-GURION reads the declaration of Israel’s independence in Tel Aviv in 1948

Grapevine: With a little help from a friend

This week in social news.

JANUARY 16, 2018|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

ISRAEL SOLDIERS on the way to the front line in Sinai in 1956.

The road not taken: Remembering Moshe Sharett

What we can and should be aware of is that once there was in Israel one prime minister who advocated and believed in restraint, compromise and moderation, and that his road was not taken.

JULY 13, 2015|ByYAAKOV SHARETT

The start of something larger than life

JULY 17, 2013ByTAL BRODY

Wanted: A true partner

Remembrance Day and Independence Day elicit for me conflicting feelings of pain and pride, of grief and joy, since they fall only one week apart.

APRIL 18, 2013ByYOTAM DORI

Travels with Ben-Gurion

Yitzhak Navon reminisces about his former pupil.

OCTOBER 7, 2012ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

A tribute whose time has come

Zipporah Borowsky Porath has published a booklet about Mickey Marcus, Israel’s first general... 61 years after she was asked by David Ben-Gurion.

JUNE 4, 2010ByDAVID GEFFEN