Sharon Hospitalized
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital on Sunday after apparently suffering a mild stroke and briefly losing consciousness, hospital officials and officials in the prime minister’s office said.
Sharon‘s condition did not appear life threatening, aides to the prime minister said. Hospital officials said the prime minister was awake, in satisfactory condition and undergoing medical tests. His sons, Omri and Gilead, rushed to the hospital to be by his side.
Sharon, 77 and very overweight, has been a political fixture of Israeli politics for more than three decades. Last month he broke away from his hardline Likud Party and formed the centrist Kadima faction to contest March 28 parliamentary elections.
The party, which has a commanding lead in the polls, is built around Sharon, and it was unclear what would happen if Sharon were too ill to campaign. If Sharon were incapacitated Vice Premier Ehud Olmert would take over the government.
Source: MSNBC.
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