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Israeli right-wing opposition leader Ariel Sharon gestures during a visit to an army lookout in Tovlan in the Jordan valley 03 January 2001. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904191 )

A handout file picture dated 29 May 1967 provided by the Israeli Government Press Office shows then Israeli army Major-General Ariel Sharon during the Six Day War in the Sinai desert. EPA/GPO ( epaselect FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A photograph dated from January 2001 shows former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as he tours the Golan Heights and stands in a trench on the hilltops. EPA/PAVEL WOLBERG ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file picture dated 28 March 2005 shows then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the Knesset listening to the final speakers on a debate on a bill whether to hold a national referendum on his controversial 'disengagement plan', in Jerusalem, Israel. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file photograph dated 07 February 2001 shows then Israeli Prime Minister-elect Ariel Sharon visiting the grave of his wife Lily at his Shikmim Farm in the northern Negev desert. EPA/DANNY SOLOMON ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file picture dated 04 January 2006 shows former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, as he attends a ceremony in his offices in Jerusalem, Israel, just hours before he suffered a stroke. EPA/ELIANA APONTE/POOL ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A handout picture dated 21 October 1998 supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office shows then Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon (R) as he approaches Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (L) during Israeli-Palestinian negotiations hosted by US President Bill Clinton at the Wye Plantation near Washington DC, USA. EPA/AVI OHAYON/GPO ( FILE USA ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file photograph dated 08 November 2005 shows former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on the outskirts of Mevessert Zion, to the West of Jerusalem, Israel, as he overlooks part of the 'separation fence', or wall being constructed between here and Har Adar (in distance) near the Palestinian villages of Beit Surik and Beit Iksa. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER ( FILE ISRAEL ARIEL SHARON )

A file handout photograph dated 08 November 2005 and supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office shows then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (C) as he is briefed by an unidentified man on the state of construction of the 'separation fence', or wall, being built around Jerusalem, Israel. EPA/ISRAELI GOVERNMENT PRESS OFFICE ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file picture dated 01 December 2005 shows then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

Photograph dated 01 July 2003 of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (L) shaking hands with then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at Sharon's offices in Jerusalem, Israel. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file handout picture dated 20 December 2005 and supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office shows then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon reviewing papers in his office in his residence in Jerusalem, Israel, shortly after he was released from Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. EPA/AVI OHAYON/GPO ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A photograph supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on 05 January 2014 shows Israeli then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (C) with General Ariel Sharon (L) and General Yekutiel Adam (R) during a visit to the Tassa Camp in the Sinai, Egypt, 19 February 1976. EPA/MOSHE MILNER ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A photograph supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on 05 January 2014 shows Israeli then Minister of Agriculture Ariel Sharon lolling in an easy chair in his home in Shikmim, south of Israel, 20 February 1979. EPA/YOSSI ROTH/ GPO ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A picture made available on xx January 2014 shows then Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at a function in Tel Aviv, Israel, 13 February 2001. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER ( ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A photograph supplied by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) on 05 January 2014 shows Israeli then Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (L) with Prime Minister Menachem Begin (C) and General Avraham Yoffe (R) in Jebel Livne in the Sinai, Egypt, 07 June 1977. Sharon, who had been in a coma after suffering a stroke and brain haemorrhage on 04 January 2006 while campaigning for re-election, died on 11 January 2014 at the age 85. EPA/MOSHE MILNER / GPO HANDOUT ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

An undated photograph made available in January 2014 of Ariel Sharon, a former general, chief of staff, defense minister, agriculture minister and prime minister, on his farm in Shikmim, southern Israel. EPA/EYAL YITSAH ( ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A picture made available in January 2014 dated from September 1993 of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon at his sheep during a photo session on his farm in Shikmim, southern Israel. EPA/GIDEON MARKOWICZ ISRAEL OUT ( epaselect ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

File picture dated 12 January 2003 of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (R) speaks with Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jersualem, Israel. EPA/GIL COHEN MAGEN POOL ( FILE ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file handout photo made available by the Israeli Government Press Office dated 12 November 1973 shows then Israeli General Ariel Sharon (L), commander in chief of Tsahal forces, at the West Bank of the Suez canal confering with a military in Sinai desert, Egypt. Former Israeli prime Minister EPA/GPO / ( FILE EGYPT ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

A file handout photo made available by the Israeli Government Press Office dated 18 October 1998 shows Ariel Sharon, then Israeli foreign minister as he sits on a bench and chats with US former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (R) during the Wye Plantation summit in Wye, Virginia, USA. EPA/AVI OHAYON / GPO ( FILES USA ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

In this Oct. 10, 1973 file photo, Maj. Gen. Ariel Sharon, right, views a map together with Maj. Gen. Haim Bar-Lev in the Sinai desert, during the 1973 Middle East War. Sharon, the hard-charging Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East, died Saturday, Jan. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Israel Government Press Office, File) ( Mideast Israel Obit Ariel Sharon )

In this Tuesday Aug. 10, 2004 file photo, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon visits the southern Israeli Bedouin town of Rahat. (AP Photo/Heidi Levine, Pool, File) ( Midease Israel Ariel Sharon )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon casts his vote at an Sderot polling station on May 2, 2004, in Sderot, Israel. Members of Ariel Sharon's Likud party were voting on his plan for a unilateral Israeli pull out from the Gaza Strip. This high-stakes political gamble, which the latest polls predict will be rejected by voters, will remove Jewish settlers from 21 settlements in Gaza Strip. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 50793769 )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon talks during the Likud party convention August 18, 2004 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The Likud party is set to vote on Sharon's intention to bring the opposition Labour party into government. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 51186823 )

United States Secretary of State Colin Powell shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon May 11, 2003 at the start fo their meeting at Sharon's official residence in Jerusalem. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images) ( 51743405 )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (R) prepares to light Hanukkah candles with Jewish rabbis at his office December 14, 2004 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Hanukkah, the "Festival of Lights," is eight days long and on each successive night an additional candle is lighted. (Photo by Uriel Sinai/Getty Images) ( 51858815 )

A photograph dated from September 1993 made available on 11 January 2014 shows former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon with one of his sheep during a photo session on his farm in Shikmim, southern Israel. EPA/GIDEON MARKOWICZ ( epaselect ISRAEL OBIT ARIEL SHARON )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks to Jewish settlers May 4, 2001 at their settlement of Netzer Hazani in the Gaza Strip. Twenty-eight years after its establishment in 1977, the descendants of Netzer Hazani's founding settlers and the others that followed them are threatening a last stand against forced removal as Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan approaches its August 15, 2005 implementation. (Photo by Amor Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images) ( 52997249 )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (R) leans over housing plans as he meets with contractors who are building temporary housing for settlers due to be evacuated from the Gaza Strip under his disengagement plan July 5, 2005 at the Nitzanim construction site in southern Israel. Earlier in the day, Sharon reiterated that Israel will react with extremely harsh measures to Palestinian attacks during the pullout from the Gaza Strip. (Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images) ( 53197126 )

In this handout picture Prime Minister of Israel Ariel Sharon (C) poses with new immigrants from North America to Israel at Ben Gurion airport on July 13, 2005 in Tel Aviv, Israel. Sharon ordered troops to tackle and crush Islamic Jihad and promised a swift retaliation for the suicide bombing at a shopping mall that killed 3 on July 12. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images) ( 53230578 )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon speaks during a meeting with Israeli police commanders on July 14, 2005 in the costal city of Ashdod, Israel. Sharon met the commanders of the Israeli police giving them encouragement for their coming mission to evacuate the Jewish settlement areas of Gaza Strip and part of the West Bank. (Photo by Nir Elias/POOL/Getty Images) ( 53236179 )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon looks on during a ceremony completing the sale of Bank Leumi to a private U.S. investment group in his office on January 4, 2006 in Jerusalem, Israel. (Photo by Eliana Aponte-Pool/Getty Images) ( 56521422 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Ariel Sharon and his wife Lily sit in the audience during a convention of the right-wing Herut party March, 10, 1986 in Tel Aviv. (Photo by Nati Harnik/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530506 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Southern Command General Ariel Sharon stands on the banks of the Suez Canal in the Sinai Desert during the Yom Kippur War October 31, 1973 in Egypt. (Photo by Ron Ilan/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530515 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon (R) meets with Prime Minister Menahem Begin in the prime ministry August 9, 1977 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Yaakov Saar/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530521 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Industry and Trade Minister Ariel Sharon sits in his chair in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, May 6, 1985 in Jerusalem. (Photo by Nati Harnik/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530525 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Southern Command General Ariel Sharon chats with former Prime Minister David Ben Gurion during a bus tour of Israeli army installations January 27, 1971 near the Suez Canal in the Sinai Desert, Egypt. (Photo by GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530727 )

In this handout provided by the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister elect Ariel Sharon prays the day after his election victory at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, February 7, 2001 in Jerusalem's Old City. (Photo by Avi Ohayon/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530738 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and his wife Lily attend a pilots graduation parade and aerial display July 15, 1982 at Hatzerim Air Force Base, Israel. (Photo by Rimon Baruch/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530508 )

In this handout provided by the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon points to family photos at his home August 3, 2001 at Shilmim Ranch in southern Israel. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530741 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Israeli paratroops officer Ariel Sharon (R) with Chief-of-Staff Moshe Dayan October 1, 1955 in Israel. (Photo by Nati Harnik/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530752 )

n this handout provided by the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wears a cowboy hat by the catle pens outside his home August 27, 2002 at Shikmim Ranch in southern Israel. (Photo by Moshe Milner/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530755 )

In this handout from the Israeli Governmental Press Office, Brigadier General Ariel Sharon watching an aerial drop in the Sinai Desert during the Six Day War June 8, 1967 in the Sinai Desert, Egypt. (Photo by Yossi Greenberg/GPO via Getty Images) ( 56530763 )

In this archive image provided by the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO), Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon speaks at a press conference on the objectives of Israel's Peace for Galilee military campaign June 11, 1982 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Photo by Ya'akov Sa'ar/GPO via Getty Images) ( 71523152 )

In this March 7, 1984 file photo, an Israeli soldier keeps his finger on the trigger of his assault rifle while Former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, right, stands on the bridge overlooking the Awali River, Israel's most northerly position in Sidon, Lebanon. (AP Photo/Max Nash, File) ( Mideast Israel Obit Ariel Sharon )

In this Wednesday, April 14, 2004 file photo, President Bush, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, left, walk together at the end of a joint press conference in the Cross Hall of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) ( Midease Israel Ariel Sharon )

In this Oct. 23, 1973 file photo, Israeli Major General Ariel Sharon, who commands Israeli units operating in the Egyptian west bank of the Suez canal, smiles with an Egyptian farmer in an unidentified village near Ismailia in Egypt. (AP Photo/Horst Faas, File) ( Mideast Israel Obit Ariel Sharon )

In this June 15, 1982 file picture provided by the Israeli Defense Ministry, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, foreground, rides an armored personnel carrier on a tour of Israeli units advancing to the outskirts of Beirut, Lebanon, during the Israeli occupation. (AP Photo/Israeli Defense Ministry) ( Mideast Israel Obit Ariel Sharon )

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon waves to the audience as he arrives to participate in a memorial ceremony for Israel's first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion marking the 32nd anniversary for his death, in Sde Boker in the Negev desert on December 7, 2005. AFP PHOTO/ MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525903883 )

A picture taken in January 1974 on the right bank of the Suez Canal of Israeli general Ariel Sharon a few days before he left the army to become a right-wing politician. AFP PHOTO/-/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904058 )

A file picture dated 01 June 1967 shows Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon (L) in his military fatigues in the Negev desert prior the six-day Arab-Israeli war. AFP PHOTO/GPOGPO/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904264 )

Israeli Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon (R) shakes hands with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan (L) after the two made speeches 11 May, 1999 at United Nations headquarters in New York, NY. AFP PHOTO/Matt CAMPBELL/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904152 )

Opposition leader Ariel Sharon of the right-wing Likud gestures towards Jerusalem's Old City 24 July 2000 on the Mount of Olives during a rally to protest any land concessions in Jerusalem to the Palestinians. AFP PHOTO/ MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904452 )

A picture taken in 1981 in Tel Aviv of Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon (R) talking to the Prime Minister Menahem Begin. AFP PHOTO/-/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904245 )

A file picture taken in October 1973 and provided by the Israeli Army shows Ariel Sharon (C) with Moshe Dayan (L) on the western side of the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippor war. AFP PHOTO/IDF HO-/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904387 )

This handout picture from the Israeli government press office's (GPO) archives dated 01 October 1955 shows General Moshe Dayan (L) shaking hands with Ariel Sharon at an undisclosed location in Israel. AFP PHOTO/HO/GPO-/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904413 )

This handout picture from the Israeli government press office's (GPO) archives dated 27 October 1971 shows former PM David Ben Gurion (front), C.O.S Haim Bar Lev (C) and Aluf Ariel Sharon (top) visiting the Israeli Army posts along the Egyptian border, near the Suez canal. AFP PHOTO/HO/GPO-/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904576 )

Israeli right-wing opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Dead Sea beach of Kalya during a tour in Jordan Valley 03 January 2001. AFP PHOTO/PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP/Getty Images ( 525904294 )