Year in Pictures: 2001

February:
With the peace process in tatters and the flames of intifada raging, Israeli voters handed Ariel Sharon an unlikely landslide victory over Ehud Barak. Sharon had been a fierce critic of the peace process, and Barak's campaign warned that the often-controversial hawk would drag Israel back into war. But the climate of fear and insecurity made the old war horse the voter's choice.

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