Sharon, Divisive in Death as in Life, Buried at Israel Ranch
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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was buried today, hailed by local and foreign dignitaries for his courage on and off the battlefield, and remembered even in death for the divisions he sowed.
Sharon’s coffin, draped with the blue-and-white Israeli flag, was brought in a military truck to his beloved Sycamore Ranch in Israel’s southern Negev desert, where he had raised sheep and cows. Earlier, at a state ceremony at Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair joined Israeli leaders and military comrades in paying tribute. Sharon died Jan. 11 at 85, eight years after a stroke left him in a coma and abruptly took him off Israel’s political stage.