Last month, when we spent a week in Israel writing about the daily evolution of Ariel (Arik, for friends) Sharonâs health, one of the readerâs of the Jurnalul National webpage brought reproaches upon the fact that we havenât written about Sharonâs two marriages and his wives, sisters, were born in Romania.
LIFETIME STORY
The media presented the two marriages of Sharon (the first with Margalit, Gali, as Sharon used to cocker her, and the second with Lili, her sister). Sharonâs family, that went through a lot of tragedies, wasnât so present in the press articles. Few of us know that Ariel Sharon had a son in his first marriage, but he died in a stupid incident, while he was playing with a gun, which went off and killed him. This tragedy came shortly after another: the death of his first wife, Margalit. A car accident on the 2nd of May 1962. Olga Zimmerman tells the Sharon family lifetime story, with its tragic and happy moments, in an exclusive interview for the Romanian-language newspaper, "Viata Noastra". She is Ariel Sharonâs sister in law. She is an Israeli woman born in Brasov, who emigrated in Israel in 1946 and who recites full verses from the Eminescu creation.
EMIGRATION
"In 1946, I, together with Margalit, my sister, integrated in the Israeli society. Afterwards, Margalit became Arikâs first wife. After an accident, my sister died and left a baby behind. My other sister, Lili, became Arikâs second wife to be able to take care of the baby", Olga explains. Afterwards, Lili and Arik had two boys, Omri and Gilad. Lili died of cancer on the 25th of March 2000.
They were six brothers, Eiezer and Itzhak Zimmerman, Margalit and Lili Sharon, Yaffa Drukman and Olga. Olga is the only one who is still alive. She dedicated her life to art and she is still creating. "It is true that I still work. I canât stop, i
