A bandage that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon wore during the 1973 Yom Kippur War is for sale on eBay. The bandage is being sold by a man who says his father was the army medic who treated Sharon, then a general leading Israeli soldiers in the Sinai Desert, after Egyptian forces damaged his armored vehicle and he suffered a head wound.
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