2023-07-15 22:19:09
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will spend the night in hospital, after being hospitalized on Saturday for tests after feeling dizzy, his office said, stressing that the 73-year-old prime minister was “in good health. form “.
“Not long ago, the prime minister arrived at Sheba Medical Center,” Israel’s largest hospital, located near Tel Aviv, his office said in a statement. “He is in good shape and undergoing medical checks,” he added. He later indicated that he was “staying in the hospital overnight for observation, on the recommendation of his doctors”, and that the weekly cabinet meeting was rescheduled from Sunday to Monday.
A heat stroke
In a separate statement, Netanyahu’s office said he spent time Friday in the blistering heat of the Sea of Galilee in northern Israel. “Today he felt slightly dizzy and, on the advice of his personal physician, Dr Zvi Berkowitz, he was taken to Sheba’s emergency department,” the statement said.
Subsequently a video was posted on Twitter where the Prime Minister reports that he had “neither hat nor water” and he agrees that “it was not a good idea”. Now he feels “very good”, he concludes.
Netanyahu from the Sheba medical center: “Yesterday, I spent the day with my wife in the Sea of Galilea, in the sun, without a hat, with no water. It’s not a good idea.
Praise the Lord, I feel very good.” pic.twitter.com/U5EnTb1bIo— Yonat Friling (Spring) (@FrilingYonat) July 15, 2023
“The first examinations showed normal results”, according to the same source. “The first diagnosis points to dehydration,” his office said, adding that the prime minister will undergo a series of further tests. In October, he was hospitalized overnight after feeling unwell during the Yom Kippur fast.
Binyamin Netanyahu, who won the November 2022 elections with his allies from the ultra-Orthodox and far-right parties, is struggling domestically where he faces relentless opposition to the judicial reform project championed by his government. He is further charged with corruption in a series of cases.
His trial opened in May 2020, a first in Israel for a sitting prime minister. Benyamin Netanyahu refutes the accusations against him and considers himself the victim of a witch hunt.
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