The Biomac Foundation

Gur Sharon, son of Ariel Sharon

On the eve of Rosh Hashana, October 1967, tragedy strikes Sharon again. Gur, Sharon's eleven years old son, and his friend, Yaakov Keren, play with an old shot gun which belongs to Ariel Sharon. The children put gun powder in the shot gun and during play Yaakov aims the gun at Gur's head and pulls the trigger. Sharon then hears the shot, hurries to the front door of his house, where he finds his son Gur lying unconscious, bleeding from his head. Sharon takes Gur in his arms and rushes to the nearest hospital, but when he arrives there it's already too late.

Gur is buried next to his mother, Margalit, who was killed in a car accident six years earlier. At the funeral Sharon sobs.