(News Of The South)- Former Israeli Prime Minister, 85 year old Ariel Sharon has died after being in a coma since 2006.
Following the coma Sharon`s deputy, Ehud Olmert, took over and was elected prime minister a few months later.
“Ariel Sharon has passed away,” said Shlomo Noy, a spokesman for Sheba medical center in Tel Aviv, where Sharon was being treated for most of the past eight years, on Saturday.
A week ago officials at the hospital where he was being cared for announced that Sharon’s health had deteriorated sharply and that he was in “grave condition” with his family at his bedside.
“He was considered to be in a state of minimal consciousness, with ups and downs in his medical condition, and minimal non-verbal communication,” Noy said.
Journalists have been camped out at this hospital in central Israel from the time it was announced that his condition had deteriorated rapidly.
His two sons, Gilad and Omri have been at his bedside and police tried to keep photographers away from them.
An Israeli ministerial committee met late on Saturday to discuss Sharon’s funeral arrangements.
A state funeral is expected to take place on Monday at 1200 GMT at Sharon’s family ranch in the Negev desert.
A committee is deciding on plans for him to lie in state before he is buried at his ranch in the Negev.
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