Former Israeli PM, Sharon, dies at 85

Former Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, died on Saturday at the age of 85, after spending eight years in coma following a stroke.

Sharon was a giant of the Israeli military and political scene, but courted controversy throughout his long career.

Head of the Sheba Medical Centre, near Tel Aviv, said Sharon died on Saturday afternoon of heart failure.

Sharon’s health had declined for the past week and a half, he said

He fought in Israeli war of independence in 1948, and from that point until he slipped into a coma in 2006, it seemed there was hardly a moment of national drama in which he did not play a role.

Sharon was always a controversial figure in Israeli politics, certainly not universally loved.

But, in mourning his passing, Israelis are marking the loss of one of the few public figures left whose career stretched back to the earliest days of their state.

Sharon, who became PM in 2001, was suffering from a malfunction of several organs, including the kidneys, doctors said on Thursday.

His health was showing signs of “a slow and gradual deterioration” and his life was in danger, they added.

Sharon had been in a persistent vegetative state since a stroke in 2006.

As Prime Minister, Sharon presided over some of the most turbulent times in Israeli-Palestinian history, a Palestinian uprising that erupted in 2000 and an Israeli military crackdown after peace talks collapsed.

To many Israelis, Sharon was a heroic warrior, having led decisive campaigns in the 1967 and 1973 wars.

In a tribute, incumbent Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said: “His memory will live forever in the nation’s heart”, his spokesman said on Twitter.

daily independence

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