Ariel Sharon, the former Israeli Prime Minister and military general, died at Tel Hashomer hospital near Tel Aviv today, after being in a coma since suffering a stroke in 2006. He had fought in three wars before being elected Prime Minister in 2001.
Sharon was born in 1928 to a family of Lithuanian Jews living in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine. As a teenager, he joined the Haganah, which later evolved into the Israeli Defense Forces. He fought in the Suez War of 1956, the Six-Day War of 1967, and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. After retiring from the military, Sharon joined the Likud party, eventually becoming its leader, but later resigned and started a centrist party called Kadima. After being widowed twice, he is survived by his two sons.
Read more at Fox News, CNN International, USA Today, BBC News and The Jerusalem Post.
See also the post A Lion Of Judah Has Passed! at Monkey In The Middle.
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