Benjamin Netanyahu to have pacemaker fitted hours ahead of key vote on judicial reform plans

Israeli prime minister vows to push ahead with controversial reforms even as tens of thousands protest against them

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be fitted with a pacemaker overnight, he has said, adding that he will be discharged from hospital in time for a key vote on his controversial judicial reforms.

“A week ago I was fitted with a monitoring device. That device beeped this evening and said I must receive a pacemaker and that I must do this already tonight,” Netanyahu said in a video statement released by his office late Saturday. “I feel great, but I need to listen to my doctors.”

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