5 Teves 5774 marks eight years since Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was stricken with a stroke that has left him comatose. It was Sharon who decided on the so-called Disengagement Plan, the expulsion of Jews from Gaza and a number of northern Shomron communities. Sharon refused to heed the words of opponents of the plan, including Maran HaGaon HaRav Ovadia Yosef ZT�L.

See the attached poster for the late Gadol Hador�s words regarding the former prime minister�s decision to oust residents from their homes, exhume bodies from the Gush Katif Beis HaChaim and shut the doors of yeshivos, shuls and batei medrash.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)