Former Israeli PM David Ben Gurion and Mr Sharon, then head of the Southern Command in the Israeli army, in 1971
Mr Sharon praying at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, after being elected prime minister in 2001Mr Sharon looks towards the Sinai Desert on a trip to the border with Egypt in 2005Mr Sharon talks to journalists prior to a cabinet meeting in December 2005This photo of Ariel Sharon (right) became an iconic image of the Yom Kippur 1973 Middle East warAriel Sharon in 1974, just days before he left the army to become a right-wing politicianMr Sharon looks towards Israeli construction works in the West Bank in 2003Mr Sharon in 1973, when he was commander in chief of Tsahal forces at the west bank of the Suez CanalMr Sharon is briefed by Yaakov Guterman on the route of Israel's separation barrier in Modi'in Illit in 2005Mr Sharon addresses school children in the northern Israeli town of Migdal Haemek in Galilee in 2005Mr Sharon sits alone as he attends a session of the Israeli Parliament in February 2003Mr Sharon holds a Sten gun as a young commander in the Alexandroni Brigade of the fledging Israeli army during the War of Independence in 1948Mr Sharon writes a note on the hood of a jeep before the attack on the Mitla Pass during Operation Kadesh in 1956
