Last week, the politician was hospitalized with dizziness.
Back to the hospital for Benjamin Netanyahu. The 73-year-old Israeli Prime Minister underwent overnight surgery to insert a pacemaker.
His health is considered “good”, the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Aviv announced after the procedure this Sunday morning, July 23. “He remains under medical supervision in the cardiology department,” says a press release from the hospital, according to our colleagues at BFMTV.
A week ago, Benjamin Netanyahu left the same medical center after a night in the hospital due to dizziness. The center then decided to use a Holter monitor Monitor your heart rate as part of cardiology investigations, Professor Amit Segev, head of the cardiology department at Sheba Hospital, said last week, according to La Voix du Nord.
A tense political climate
This medical intervention takes place in a tense political climate. According to our colleagues at Progress, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets in Tel Aviv and other cities on Saturday to protest the controversial plan to reform the judicial system, which its critics see as controversial an authoritarian current.
these demonstrations, the 28th Since the reform bill was presented in January, a key reform measure for the government of Benjamin Netanyahu, one of the most far-right in the country’s history, has passed parliament in just a few days at first reading. The clause, passed on Tuesday, aims to deprive the judiciary of the ability to do so “Adequacy” rule government decisions.