Which israeli prime minister in coma

As an ultra-orthodox Jew he says that he believes that what has happened to her must have occurred for a good reason, "But even now I sit next to her and cry," he says.

During this time Eli and his family have visited the ward regularly, updating her about their lives and bringing news from the outside world. Despite any change in her condition, his daughter has progressed, growing from a young child into a teenager. In four years' time she'll be a young woman and moved to the adult ward. The doctors seem to encourage a sense of hope. One tells me, "Hope for a miracle is a fundamental human trait".

I'm looking around the ward and another doctor comes up to tell me that a mother has heard that we're here and has requested that I come and speak to her adult son. She thinks that having the BBC here might be enough to wake him up. She looked expectant.

I knew I was going to disappoint her. She was from Georgia and spoke no Hebrew, but through a three-way translation she tells me, "I've been here all day and all night for eleven years. Her son looks as though he was asleep and there seems to be flickering behind his eyelids, but he too is unconscious after a cardiac arrest.

Beside the bed an old folded mattress leans against the wall, alongside several giant checked shopping bags, a small fridge and a coffee machine. Although she doesn't speak the same language as any of her the staff, his mother had made the ward her home. She now lives at his bedside and her daughter who works in a shop nearby often visits too.

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