Hundreds of Israelis lined up outside Israel’s parliament building yesterday to pay their last respects to Ariel Sharon, the former prime minister and general who died over the weekend.

Egyptians jubilantly climbed on top of army tanks and armoured personnel carriers enforcing security in Cairo today.

ARIEL Sharon is a farmer-turned-soldier, a war hero-turned-politician, a hard-charging Israeli who built Jewish settlements on war-won land but didn’t shy away from destroying them when they collided with his bigger design.

ISRAEL launched its deepest air raid into Syria in 30 years yesterday, attacking what it said was a training camp for Palestinian militants after a suicide bomber killed 19 people in an Israeli restaurant.