Israel's Sharon, Back After Stroke, to Have Heart Procedure

surprise surprise...Sharon has a hole in his heart

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aoonCv8BZmf8&refer=top_world_news

Dec. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who returned to work this week after suffering a mild stroke, will undergo a catheterization in January to seal a small opening in his heart, his doctors said today.
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Sharon, 77, who plans to run for a third term in March, returned to work yesterday after resting at home since his discharge from the hospital Dec. 20. The stroke caused no brain damage and won't interfere with his government duties, his doctors said.

It's a gated community with maximum security.

Rightist party uses PM's medical condition in election campaign phamplets

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3190437,00.html

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"The far Right has wasted little time in attempting to use the prime minister's medical condition in the general elections campaign. Phamplets distributed in Jerusalem show Ariel Sharon wearing pajamas in hospital, with intravenous needles.

A week after Sharon was hospitalized in Jerusalem's Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital after suffering a stroke, and on the day the prime minister's doctors updated the nation on his medical condition, informing the public that Sharon will undergo a catheterization treatment for his heart in a number weeks, the National Jewish Front party, headed by Baruch Marzel, decided to present its own view of the situation.

A heading over the picture reads: "A sick leader for a healthy country?"