Ariel Sharon's son tells NY Times father responsive, moves his fingers
Gilad Sharon tells the Times father has put on weight, family wants him home, has visited him every day since his stroke six years ago.
By Haaretz Tags: Ariel SharonFormer Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who suffered a massive stroke six years ago and is in a coma, responds to some requests and has but on some weight, despite being fed intravenously, his son, Gilad Sharon, told the New York Times.
“When he is awake, he looks at me and moves fingers when I ask him to, I am sure he hears me,” the younger Sharon said in a telephone interview with the Times.
Gilad Sharon is publishing a biography of his father’s life titled “Sharon: The Life of a Leader”, to be released on Tuesday in Hebrew and English, which he has been working on for the past four-and-a-half years.
The former prime minister is currently at Sheba Hospital, but his family hopes he can be returned home.
“The problem is Israeli bureaucracy. I think it would be better for him to be at home,” Gilad Sharon told the Times. He continued, saying that either he, his wife, Inbal or his brother Omri had visited his father every day since his stroke six years ago. “We haven’t missed a single day,” he told the Times.
Sharon was taken back to his home on the Sycamore Farm in the Negev in 2010, however, he was returned to the hospital shortly thereafter, where he has remained.
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Former PM Ariel Sharon’s sons Gilad, left, and Omri. |
| Photo by: Alon Ron |
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who can't die and can't live; you do reap what you sow.
Sharon has been a vegetable for years. What an undignified way, especially for a warrior, to exist. Beside that, it has cost the Israeli tax payers millions to keep him "alive" in this vegetative state. Great Warrior, Horrible Politician. Let him belong to the ages, not a science experiment.
His son shoud wati with his book.
You have got to hand it to Sharon's boys, they are among the most successful con artists in history...
to the utter failure, the devastated lives and physical and political danger he put Israel in, with his absurd disengagement.
It's not the Gaza disengagement that put Israel in danger, it's the settlements in the territories using and abusing military force against palestinians to achieve that policy. In 67 there was no settlements, today there hundreds. Israel is fully responsible for that and Sharon was an actor. His place is in La Hague.
It's the same excuse you have today or back in 1948 as you can't handle seeing a successful Jewish State thriving in what you've confiscated for the heartland of Imperial Islam, though Israel has been re-established in modern times on its own ancient foundations.
b"H This is great news that I have actually been expecting for some time now - and many Tefillos. If someone would talk to Ariel Sharon in Yiddish and urge him to do Tshuva and ask his whole family to keep Shabbat, I think he might recover soon - completely. Ask Gilad Shalit to ask klal Yisrael to try our very best to keep Shabbat, and we will have nothing more to fear. Shabbat Shalom umevorakh to all. Gut Shabbos.
Just in time for the final chapter and the dawning of a new era in human history.
of a new donut shop
That would be a fantastic miracle. We miss his leadership.
it would be thanks to modern medical science, not your lousy god of "miracles." try praying for the regeneration of a lost limb anywhere in the world. see how god responds
Even in his present condition, he will do a better job than Netanyahu and company.