Lily Sharon, Ariel Sharon's wife, 63
Fata Morgana
JERUSALEM (AP) -
Lily Sharon, wife of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, died in a Tel Aviv hospital
Saturday after a long bout with lung cancer. She was 63.
The former general and cabinet minister and other family members were at her bedside.
Sharon had been in and out of Tel Hashomer hospital since Jan. 18. Over the past year, she
underwent treatments in the United States by leading oncologists, often accompanied by her
husband.
Prime Minister Ehud Barak and his wife, Nava, expressed deep sorrow and sent their
condolences to the family, Barak's office said in a news release. Lily Sharon was ``an
outstanding personality, loved by the Israeli public,'' the communique said.
Her husband's Likud party, in a statement, called Sharon ``a wonderful woman, gifted and
courageous, who participated in the struggle of the Jewish people for its independence.''
Barak's Labor party said Lily Sharon ``fought her sickness bravely,'' and her husband
``supported her with devotion.''
An interior decorator by profession, Lily was Ariel Sharon's second wife and the sister of
his first wife, Margalit, who was killed 38 years ago in a road accident. She leaves
behind two sons, Omri and Gilead, and two grandchildren.
Ariel Sharon is a controversial figure who has aroused intense devotion among his right
wing supporters and bitter animosity among his left wing critics and adversaries.
As defense minister, he launched the highly controversial 1982 invasion of Lebanon,
sending the army all the way to Beirut despite a storm of protest from left-wing and
centrist Israelis.
He was forced to resign and barred from holding the post again after a committee found him
indirectly responsible for the September 1982 massacre of hundreds of Palestinian
civilians by Lebanese Christian militiamen.
He became the leader of the opposition Likud party after former Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu stepped down hours after losing the May 17 election to Barak.
Lily Sharon, considered close to her husband, often accompanied him to meetings and
conventions, including at the most difficult junctions of his career.
Cheers,
Fata Morgana
Matthew Hubbard
>
> JERUSALEM (AP) -
>
> Lily Sharon, wife of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, died in a
> Tel Aviv hospital Saturday after a long bout with lung cancer. She was
>
> An interior decorator by profession, Lily was Ariel Sharon's second
> wife and the sister of his first wife, Margalit, who was killed 38
> years ago in a road accident. She leaves behind two sons, Omri and
> Gilead, and two grandchildren.
Two questions: How long were they married and how old is her husband?
(I think he should be well into his 70s - I think he's older than my
dad, for example - but I don't have the information.)
MattH
J. J. Levin
> Fata Morgana wrote:
> >
> > JERUSALEM (AP) -
> >
> > Lily Sharon, wife of Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon, died in a
> > Tel Aviv hospital Saturday after a long bout with lung cancer. She was
> > 63...
> >
> > Two questions: How long were they married and how old is her husband?
>
> (I think he should be well into his 70s - I think he's older than my
> dad, for example - but I don't have the information.)
They were married for 37 years.
He must be 72-73 years old now.
Jay
Fata Morgana
>> An interior decorator by profession, Lily was Ariel Sharon's second
>> wife and the sister of his first wife, Margalit, who was killed 38
>> years ago in a road accident. She leaves behind two sons, Omri and
>> Gilead, and two grandchildren.
>
> Two questions: How long were they married and how old is her husband?
>(I think he should be well into his 70s - I think he's older than my
>dad, for example - but I don't have the information.)
Sharon was born in 1928, therefore he is 72. Not sure about how many years they were
married, sorry :-/
Cheers,
Fata Morgana
Brad Ferguson
<lab...@yahoo.com> wrote:
Just asking, but ... isn't it kind of weird to marry your dead wife's
sister?
trippy
from the first marriage.
In the Old Country (wilds of White Russia pre-1917) all kinds of funny stuff
happened to ensure the survival of the race. My Uncle's father wanted to marry
this widow and she said "provided your son (my uncle) marries my daughter"
and whoops!! he was done for!! Talk about a shot-gun wedding.
Myer
Brad Ferguson wrote:Just asking, but ... isn't it kind of weird to marry your
dead wife's
> sister?
Barry Shein
>Just asking, but ... isn't it kind of weird to marry your dead wife's
>sister?
Isn't Peter Bogdonavich married to Dorothy Stratten's sister?
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>
>
> Just asking, but ... isn't it kind of weird to marry your dead wife's
> sister?
How many times have you wanted to break in a new mother-in-law? Once
is usually enough.
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trippy
engaged to the Duke of Clarence, heir to the throne in 1891 - he died of
influenza in January , 1892. She then married his younger brother George who
eventually became King George V.
This re-engagement was under direct pressure from the old girl Queen Victoria,
herself.
The marriage was a most happy one and there were no regrets.
Myer
Matthew Hubbard
>
> Just asking, but ... isn't it kind of weird to marry your dead wife's
> sister?
More old fashioned than weird. I'm pretty sure J.S. Bach married his
dead wife's sister, and so did the great mathematician Leonhard Euler.
The Biblical story of Onan is about a guy who didn't want to marry his
dead brother's wife, as he was forced to do by the custom of the time,
but that's a slightly different story.
MattH
David Samuel Barr
>
> Brad Ferguson wrote:
> >
> > Just asking, but ... isn't it kind of weird to marry your dead
> > wife's sister?
>
> More old fashioned than weird. I'm pretty sure J.S. Bach married his
> dead wife's sister,
Wrong. Bach's first wife was his second cousin, Maria Barbara Bach,
whom he married in 1707. Maria Barbara died in 1720, and the following
year later he married Anna Magdalena Wilcke, who was not related to
either Maria Barbara or himself.
> and so did the great mathematician Leonhard Euler.
>
> The Biblical story of Onan is about a guy who didn't want to marry his
> dead brother's wife, as he was forced to do by the custom of the time,
> but that's a slightly different story.
Levirate marriage requires a man to marry his deceased brother's widow
in order to bear her a son who would inherit the family name and
property of the dead man. Onan refused to comply because he resented
the fact that the child would be, for legal purposes, his brother's and
not his (Genesis 38:6-11). In Deuteronomy 25:5-10, the levirate
marriage custom is codified into law, but at the same time a provision
is added which allows a man to get out of that obligation (albeit with a
certain amount of public humiliation) and frees the woman to marry
whomever she chooses thereafter (which she hadn't been previously).