Sharon unlikely to return to power
Vice Premier Ehud Olmert was named acting prime minister and convened the cabinet for a special session yesterday, where Mr Sharon’s large chair at the centre of the long oval table remained empty. “This is a difficult situation that we are not accustomed to,” Mr Olmert told the sombre ministers.
A brain scan after surgery showed that the bleeding had been stopped, and the 77-year-old prime minister was transferred to the intensive care unit, said Dr Shlomo Mor-Yosef, the director of Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
