This Sunday night the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will undergo surgery for a hernia after the meeting he held with the war cabinet, as announced this Sunday by his press office.
The hernia was discovered last night during a routine check-up and Netanyahu will be under full anesthesia during the operation, according to his office.
Justice Minister Yariv Levin, who is also Deputy Prime Minister, will temporarily fill Netanyahu’s position.
The 74-year-old Israeli prime minister already had to undergo surgery last July to have a pacemaker implanted after fainting.
As at that time, Netanyahu faces a complicated political situation, now aggravated by the war between Israel and Hamas and renewed tensions on the border with Lebanon.
This same night, a four-day protest against the Government is scheduled to begin in Jerusalem, which for the first time will also include the families of the hostages kidnapped by Hamas in the Gaza Strip, and which will ask the political class for an agreement to free to the captives and the calling of new elections.
The protesters will begin at 6:15 p.m. local time (3:15 p.m. GMT) a march through the Givat Ram neighborhood – where Israel’s power structures are located – to the Knesset (Parliament), where they plan to camp for four days, in which they will also They will hold night protests.
Speakers taking part in the protests include opposition chief Yair Lapid; relatives of Hamas victims and hostages; as well as Moshe Radman, one of the leaders of the protests against judicial reform that took over the streets of Israel throughout 2023, a movement that now merges with that of the families of the captives to call for early elections in the country.
Even the Israel Business Forum, which brings together the country’s 200 largest firms and the majority of private sector workers, announced this Sunday that it is giving its employees carte blanche to be absent from work and attend this week’s anti-government protests. .
In addition, dozens of technology companies, a thriving flagship sector of the Israeli economy, have also said that their employees can join the protests without sanctions.
Last night, tens of thousands of people took part in mass protests across the country, as weekly demonstrations by hostage families in Tel Aviv took a dramatic turn as speakers called on attendees to “take to the streets” and join Anti-government protesters in the heart of the city.
Until now, both groups held weekly protests every Saturday, but separately, since until now the families preferred to only demand an agreement for the release of hostages, without further political connotations.
“The demonstrations are over, the protests have just begun,” Hostage and Missing Families Forum spokesperson Haim Rubinstein tweeted.
Police made more than a dozen arrests last night and deployed water cannons to disperse protests in Tel Aviv, where some demonstrators blocked main roads.
There were also clashes with police in Jerusalem, where about 200 protesters broke police barriers to demonstrate about 100 meters from the prime minister’s official residence; as well as in front of his private holiday home in Caesarea, on the Mediterranean coast, where in both cases they asked him to resign.
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