Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, in a coma since a 2006 stroke, is clinging to life after his condition took a turn for the worse last week, the head of the hospital treating him said on Sunday. Sharon was fighting like a “true lion,” Zeev Rotstein told reporters. But he added: “Our general assessment…
(Haaretz) — For the past eight years, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has been lying comatose in Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center, after he sufferred a severe stroke. For much of this time, his medical condition has not wavered – and neither has the public’s keen interest in the details surrounding his hospitalization, despite…
Ariel Sharon’s medical condition further deteriorated following a blood infection and multiple organ failure. Prof. Ze’ev Rotstein, the director of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, said at a press conference Friday morning that over the past 24 hours, doctors have observed a slow deterioration in the functioning of the former Israeli prime minister’s vital…
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, comatose since a 2006 stroke, slipped closer to death on Thursday after a sharp decline in the condition of the ex-general who long symbolised Israel’s military might. Reviled by Arabs over his hardline policies and viewed with a mixture of respect and suspicion by many Israelis, 85-year-old Sharon has been…
The condition of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has deteriorated and he is suffering from kidney failure. Sharon, 85, has been in a coma-like state since he had a major stroke in January 2006, less than a month after suffering from an initial stroke. He reportedly is in a state classified as “minimal consciousness.”…
Einat Wilf and Ehud Barak announce defection from Labor Party, January 17, 2011 / Wikimedia Commons A former Labor Party Knesset member, Einat Wilf, is complaining that she’s been dropped from the program of the third annual Conference of the Israeli Left, sponsored Peace Now, because of her pro-Israel views. In a Facebook post announcing…
It’s been a week since Bar-Ilan 2, Benjamin Netanyahu’s jarringly hardline policy address October 6 at the university campus where he first endorsed Palestinian statehood in 2009. And so far there’s been almost no public reaction. What little attention there’s been has gone mostly to his defiantly hardline statements on Iran. The important part has…
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had successful surgery to insert a feeding tube. Tuesday’s surgery was preplanned, according to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Tel Aviv. Sharon, 84, has been in state classified as “minimal consciousness” since 2006, when he suffered a severe stroke. Tests conducted in January at Soroka…
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