Sharon, hospitalized since his January hemorrhage in Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital's emergency ward in Jerusalem, was taken to Tel HaShomer's respiratory rehabilitation department.
His condition is still listed as serious, essentially unchanged since he was first hospitalized in early January. The transfer was effected at the request of Sharon's sons, Omri and Gilad, and following consultations with doctors in both hospitals.
On April 5, Sharon was operated on for the eighth time, and part of his skull was restored to his head in preparation for the move.
Earlier this month, the Knesset Finance Committee voted that Sharon be eligible to receive medical services free of charge from the government for the coming five years.
The respiratory rehabilitation department at Tel HaShomer, headed by Dr. Aryeh Vilner, is the only one of its kind in the country. Doctors there hope they will be able to bring Sharon to be able to breathe on his own.
Sharon's last two years before his debilitating stroke were centered around the Disengagement Plan he authored, as well as the formation of the Kadima Party in its wake. Sharon waged an intense political war against many of his former political allies, both in the Likud and among the settlement enterprise in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. He emerged victorious, and succeeded in bringing about the expulsion of some 9,000 Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and elsewhere and the abandonment of the territory to Palestinian terrorists.
Facing continued opposition within his Likud party, Sharon decided in late November of last year to break away from the Likud and start a new party. He was in the midst of single-handedly choosing the new party's future Knesset Members when he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, and has not awoken since.
His condition is still listed as serious, essentially unchanged since he was first hospitalized in early January. The transfer was effected at the request of Sharon's sons, Omri and Gilad, and following consultations with doctors in both hospitals.
On April 5, Sharon was operated on for the eighth time, and part of his skull was restored to his head in preparation for the move.
Earlier this month, the Knesset Finance Committee voted that Sharon be eligible to receive medical services free of charge from the government for the coming five years.
The respiratory rehabilitation department at Tel HaShomer, headed by Dr. Aryeh Vilner, is the only one of its kind in the country. Doctors there hope they will be able to bring Sharon to be able to breathe on his own.
Sharon's last two years before his debilitating stroke were centered around the Disengagement Plan he authored, as well as the formation of the Kadima Party in its wake. Sharon waged an intense political war against many of his former political allies, both in the Likud and among the settlement enterprise in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. He emerged victorious, and succeeded in bringing about the expulsion of some 9,000 Jews from their homes in Gush Katif and elsewhere and the abandonment of the territory to Palestinian terrorists.
Facing continued opposition within his Likud party, Sharon decided in late November of last year to break away from the Likud and start a new party. He was in the midst of single-handedly choosing the new party's future Knesset Members when he suffered a massive brain hemorrhage, and has not awoken since.