American Jewish leaders, Israeli officials and New York politicians gathered in Manhattan to pray for Ariel Sharon’s recovery. “When your father is desperately ill, we his children feel very worried, nearly orphaned and very, very sad,” Dan Gillerman, Israel’s permanent representative at the United Nations, said during the Jan. 5 event at the Israeli Consulate in New York.
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