Conductor politician

Je activist

Served as the 12th prime minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009

Also served as a cabinet minister from 1988 to 1992 and from 2003 to 2006

Between his first and second stints as a cabinet member, he served as mayor of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003

After serving as prime minister, he was sentenced to serve a prison term over convictions for accepting bribes and for obstruction of justice during his terms as mayor of Jerusalem and as trade minister

Served with the Israel Defense Forces in the Golani Brigade

Completed his military duties as a journalist for the IDF magazine BaMahane

During the Yom Kippur War, he joined the headquarters of Ariel Sharon as a military correspondent

Already a member of the Knesset, he decided to go through an officer's course in 1980 at the age of 35