Sharon Suffers Massi Stork

Acting Prime Minister Olmert Meeting with President Katsav

Prime Minister Sharon Incapacitated by Stroke On January 4th 2006 Israelis Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a massisve stoke that totally incapacitated him. Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmer took over as Acting Prime Minister

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffered a minor stroke in late December . Sharon who had left the Likud party form a new centrist party called Kadima was serving as Prime Minister until an interim government. Sharon suffered a massive stroke the night before he was to undergo an operation to correct a heart defect thougth to be a contributing cause of the stoke. Sharon underwent three operations to stem the bleeding in his brain. The stroke ended the carreer of the Prime Minister who had been nicknamed the "bulldozer". Sharon through most of his carreer was known as an Israeli "hawk" ended his carreer by leading Israel into making a unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip.