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JERUSALEM, Jan. 5 (Xinhuanet) -- Israeli cabinet held
a special session Thursday morning chaired by acting premier Ehud Olmert.
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| Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sits next to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's empty chair during an emergency cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, January 5, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters) |
The meeting was held as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
was battling for his life in a Jerusalem hospital after suffered a massive brain
haemorrhage overnight.
Olmert, deputy prime minister and finance minister,
was made acting premier after Sharon has been in the hospital to undergo surgery
from which medical experts have warned he may not recover.
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