Former Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu, running for the November 1 legislative elections, left a prayer ceremony in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening October 5 due to discomfort, his services said he was now "
well
".
Binyamin Netanyahu, who will be 73 in two weeks, "
felt badly
" while attending a prayer in a Jerusalem synagogue, that of "
Neilah
", celebrated as part of Yom Kippur, the main day of the calendar Jew, announced his services.
The nature of his discomfort not yet known
“
He underwent a series of on-site tests which were found to be normal.
Now he feels good.
But for the avoidance of doubt, the ex-prime minister intends to go independently to the hospital to carry out an examination
,” they added.
Benyamin Netanyahu's services did not detail the nature of his discomfort, but Israeli media spoke
of "chest pain
".
Prime Minister Yair Lapid, Benjamin Netanyahu's rival in the November legislative elections, wished him on Twitter a "
speedy and full recovery
".
The Israelis are invited to the polls on November 1, for the fifth time in three and a half years, for legislative elections which could confirm the return to business of Benyamin Netanyahu, the most long-lasting of the heads of government in the history of the country who had left the power in the spring of 2021 thanks to a motley coalition currently led by Yaïr Lapid.
The latest polls credit the Likud (right) of Binyamin Netanyahu, charged with corruption, with first place in voting intentions with just over thirty seats out of the 120 in the Knesset (Parliament).
His "
right bloc
“, which also includes its allies from the ultra-Orthodox parties and the extreme right, flirts with the threshold of the majority (61 deputies) without guarantee however of reaching it, specify the polls.
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