Until Sunday, the cardiologists had publicly played down concerns.
Because illnesses can damage a ruler’s carefully maintained veneer of invincibility, strongmen around the world often obfuscate their medical history.Netanyahu’s close ally, former U.S. President Donald Trump, provided a highly sanitized account of his own health — never releasing full details of his medical history before he became president, and limiting information about his COVID-19 diagnosis in 2020.
But worrying critics most has been the hospital’s contradictory assessments of Netanyahu’s health and a wider lack of government transparency. The next day, he underwent heart tests, which the prime minister’s office said had all come back clear. Dr. Amit Segev, the director of the hospitals’ cardiology unit, said Netanyahu was fitted with a heart monitor as a purely routine measure “to continue regular monitoring.”Article contentBut a full week later, last Saturday, Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital for sudden surgery to receive a pacemaker.
“This is a disaster: The doctors knew about his medical condition and lied to the people,” said Eliad Shraga, Chairman of the Movement for Quality Governance in Israel, a civil society group. “If he is not in fit and proper condition maybe he is not fit to run a nation in such a crisis.” News of Netanyahu’s ailments could jeopardize the personal charisma that has been so critical to his political staying power, experts say.Netanyahu appeared shaky at times during the legislative sessions on Monday just hours after his release from the hospital, his eyes sunken, but he soldiered on.
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