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Downfall of Israel's Hadassah hospital sign of deeper crisis

The collapse of the Hadassah hospital demonstrates that as long as the government avoids dealing with powerful interest groups that control the economy and threaten politicians, the next fiasco is just a matter of time.

An Orthodox Jewish man pushes himself on a wheelchair outside Hadassah hospital, where the critically ill Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is being treated, in Jerusalem January 14, 2006. Doctors tending to Sharon are concerned that the Israeli prime minister has not shown signs of emerging from a coma and may take longer than hoped to regain consciousness, hospital sources said on Friday. REUTERS/Chris Helgren - RTR185BP
An Orthodox Jewish man pushes himself in a wheelchair outside Hadassah hospital, Jerusalem, Jan. 14, 2006. — REUTERS/Chris Helgren

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