Sharon spent more than two decades in various ministerial posts building settlements. In the mid-1970s, as an adviser to prime minister Yitzhak Rabin of the Labor Party, Sharon joined squatters on an isolated West Bank hilltop, resisting soldiers who came to evacuate them. Then he negotiated a deal allowing the settlers to stay and build the Elon Moreh settlement, today home to about 1,000 people.



