Cancer as a source of national hope

Diagnosed with prostate cancer, Olmert might not want to enter the history as the renegade who abandoned Judea and Jerusalem to Muslims.
Israeli doctors have a bad record of treating non-conformist politicians. Recently, Rabin was shot at the surgery table and Sharon was released from the hospital to work after a massive brain damage. Olmert’s chances of surviving the medical treatment in leftist Israel are pretty slim.