Shlomo Argov, Israel’s Ambassador to Britain, returned to Israel last night and is now being treated in the neurosurgical department of the Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem after two months of treatments in a London hospital following the attack on him June 3 which sparked off the war in Lebanon. Argov suffered severe head injuries in the attack.
Argov was taken from the London hospital to the airport to board the El Al jet under tight security precautions. He travelled to Israel on a stretcher, accompanied by his wife, a doctor and a nurse.
Deputy Foreign Minister Yehuda Ben-Meir, who was at Ben Gurion Airport as Argov was carried out of the plane, said the Ambassador’s “struggle for life and refusal to succumb to murder symbolizes the role of Israeli soldiers in the fight against Palestinian murderers in Lebanon.” Argov expressed pleasure at being home again.
He will still require an extensive period of treatment and rehabilitation for the partial paralysis he is said to suffer. Argov is reported to know that Israel has been fighting a war in Lebanon, but it is not known whether he is aware that it was the terrorist attack on him which sparked off the war.
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