The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz asked the country’s Supreme Court to reject an appeal by former Cabinet minister Ariel Sharon to overturn a verdict in a libel case against the newspaper. In 1997, an Israeli court ruled that the paper had sufficient evidence to conclude that Sharon misled then-Prime Minister Menachem Begin about his objectives during the 1982 Lebanon War.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
