The office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu published his annual health report this Friday, revealing that he underwent treatment for prostate cancer after doctors discovered a small malignant tumor following a previous prostate intervention.
According to the report, the 76-year-old Likud leader underwent surgery on December 29, 2024 for benign prostatic hyperplasia. The intervention was successful and without complications.
An MRI performed as part of routine post-operative follow-up revealed a small lesion, less than a centimeter, with suspicious features in the prostate, according to the report.
According to the diagnosis, he is now in good health and the illness “can only remain monitored”: “It is possible to live with it,” the politician stated on his social networks.
The medical report has been hidden for two months because of the war over Iran, but is now being made public to “not allow the terrorist regime in Iran to spread further false propaganda against Israel.” Netanyahu even had to confront intense rumors on social media about his hypothetical death in the first days of the operation. Lately he looked a little paler and thinner than usual.
As reported today by the Israeli media YnetNetanyahu recently successfully requested the postponement of the hearings scheduled for his corruption trial this week because today he will undergo surgery to remove his prostate at the Hadassah Hospital in Ein Karem (southwest of Jerusalem), which will force him to remain hospitalized for several days.
“Without any spread or metastasis”
In his X account, Netanyahu emphasizes that he is “healthy” and in “excellent physical shape.” “Thank God, that is now behind us,” he says. He details that the examination detected “a tiny spot measuring less than a centimeter in the prostate”, a “very early stage of a malignant tumor”, but “without any spread or metastasis.”
“The doctors told me that it is very common in men my age, and that there are two options: either it is not necessary to treat it, you can just remain under follow-up. It is possible to live with it, and many do, or undergo treatment and eliminate the problem,” he explains. “You know me. When you give me timely information about a potential danger, I want to treat it immediately. This is true on a national level and also on a personal level. That’s what I did,” taking health into politics (don’t forget that there are elections in the fall).
“I underwent a targeted treatment that eliminated the problem and left no trace of it. I attended a few short treatment sessions, read a book, and continued working. The spot disappeared completely”
“I underwent a targeted treatment that eliminated the problem and left no trace of it. I attended a few short treatment sessions, read a book, and continued working. The stain completely disappeared,” he congratulates himself. And he closes: “Baruch Hashem, I conquered this too”, that is, “Praise God, I conquered this too.”
Netanyahu also uses his message to thank the medical staff who have treated him in one of the best hospitals in Jerusalem, Hadassah, and to ask its citizens to take care of themselves and have check-ups and heed the advice of health workers. “And from here, on the eve of Shabbat, I pray for the peace of our wounded in body and soul, and I send them a warm hug and a speedy recovery in their name,” he concludes.
