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Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is observed in a report {photograph} on February 18.
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Israeli High Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can have surgical procedure beneath complete anesthesia for a hernia, his place of work mentioned in a remark.
Netanyahu, 74, used to be recognized with a hernia all over a regimen exam on Saturday and is scheduled to go through the surgical procedure on the finish of industrial on Sunday, the remark learn.
The surgical procedure manner Israel’s chief might be quickly out of motion with the country at struggle with Hamas in Gaza following the October 7 assaults.
Israel’s deputy high minister and justice minister, Yariv Levin, will step in for Netanyahu whilst he’s incapacitated.
In a information convention Sunday in Jerusalem forward of the surgical procedure, Netanyahu mentioned he’s constructive about the result of the process and that he’s going to go back to paintings “in no time.”
“I guarantee you that I will be able to get thru this remedy effectively and go back to motion in no time,” Netanyahu mentioned.
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Yariv Levin, left, will step in for the High Minister whilst he’s incapacitated.
The operation will happen amid renewed talks between Israel and Hamas in Cairo, in keeping with a file in Egyptian media.
The negotiations to safe the discharge of the remainder Israeli hostages held by means of the militant crew in alternate for a ceasefire within the battle that has observed greater than 32,000 Gazans killed had reached an deadlock final week.
That is Netanyahu’s 2nd surgical procedure since returning to the premiership in past due 2022. A well being scare final summer season ended with the Israeli chief being fitted for a pacemaker to mend a brief middle block.
Netanyahu prior to now had a hernia in 2013 that still required surgical procedure.
A hernia is an opening within the belly muscular wall that permits one thing within the stomach to protrude outward, in keeping with Johns Hopkins Medication.
