Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent treatment for prostate cancer in recent months and has made a full recovery, he announced on social media on Friday.
During a routine medical checkup about a year and a half after surgery for an enlarged prostate, doctors found a malignant tumor “less than a centimeter in size” on Netanyahu’s prostate. he wrote on x. The cancer had not metastasized.
“When I am given timely information about a potential threat, I want to deal with it immediately,” he wrote. “This is true on a national level as well as a personal level. That’s what I did.”
Netanyahu’s revelations come as the US and Israel are locked in a shaky truce in the war against Iran. Israel has said it is prepared to resume fighting if talks fail. Only 10 percent of Israelis called the campaign a significant success April poll released After the armistice came into effect for the first time.
Netanyahu, 76, said he had requested a two-month delay in the publication of his annual medical report so as not to allow the terrorist regime in Iran to spread further false propaganda against Israel during the early stages of the US and Israel joint operation.
This diagnosis is “very common in people my age,” he wrote.
“I got some short treatments, read a book and continued working,” he wrote. “That place has been completely destroyed. Thank God I won this battle too.”
