Model of Sharon in hospital aims to provoke

A life-size model Israel's Ariel Sharon lying comatose in a hospital bed is to be unveiled in Tel Aviv later this week in a art exhibit portraying the political inertia gripping the Jewish state. The eerily realistic model of the former prime minister...

A life-size model Israel's Ariel Sharon lying comatose in a hospital bed is to be unveiled in Tel Aviv later this week in a art exhibit portraying the political inertia gripping the Jewish state. The eerily realistic model of the former prime minister lies on a hospital bed in an empty room at Tel Aviv's Kishon art gallery, his eyes open, his sizeable stomach rising and falling as he breathes.

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