Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been fitted with a pacemaker, after being rushed to hospital hours ahead of a key vote on his controversial judicial reforms.
His doctors said the operation had gone well. “The implant went smoothly without any complications. He is not in a life-threatening condition and he feels great and is returning to his daily routine,” said Roy Beinart, who manages the arrhythmia centre at Sheba Medical Center, early Sunday.
In a video statement issued late Saturday, before the procedure, Netanyahu had said he was fitted with a monitoring device a week earlier. “That device beeped this evening and said I must receive a pacemaker and that I must do this already tonight.”
“I feel great, but I need to listen to my doctors,” he added.
Netanyahu, 73, was standing in the video and smiling. He said his doctors had assured him he would be discharged from the hospital “tomorrow afternoon”.
Netanyahu was also hospitalised overnight last week for what he said was dehydration from holidaying at the Sea of Galilee without properly protecting himself from a heatwave.
The hospital on 16 July confirmed its original diagnosis of dehydration and said additional tests involving a subcutaneous holter monitor had found Netanyahu to be “in complete cardiac health,” though the device would allow his medical team to continue monitoring his health.
Netanyahu faces a domestic crisis in his record sixth term as prime minister, with protests surging against his religious-nationalist coalition’s push for judicial changes.
Netanyahu said in his video he would be discharged from hospital in time for a key vote scheduled to start at parliament on Sunday and last throughout Monday.
Tens of thousands of Israelis marched to Jerusalem on Saturday hoping to drum up support against the judicial overhaul and rallied outside parliament ahead of the vote on the bill that would limit some of the supreme court’s powers.
Critics fear the judicial changes aim to curb court independence by Netanyahu, who is on trial for corruption which he denies. Netanyahu says the reforms would balance out branches of government.
The furore has contributed to strains in relations with the US, as have surging Israeli-Palestinian violence and progress in Iran’s nuclear programme. Washington has urged Netanyahu to seek broad agreements over any judicial reforms.
In his video, Netanyahu suggested that last minute agreements could be reached.
First elected to top office in 1996, Netanyahu has been both dynamic and polarising. He spearheaded a free-market revolution in Israel while showing distrust of internationally backed peacemaking with the Palestinians and world powers’ negotiations to cap Iran’s nuclear programme.
In early October, a few weeks before winning a national election, Netanyahu fell ill during the Jewish fast of Yom Kippur and was briefly hospitalised
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