Begin Expected to Go Home Soon After Hospital Tests
Former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, hospitalized for tests after complaining of general weakness, is expected to return home soon, a hospital spokesman said Sunday.
“He feels much better now, and he is expected to go home in the next two or three days,” spokesman Rami Sadan said.
The reclusive former prime minister is staying in a private room with guards posted to keep out all visitors except family members. So far, Begin has seen only his son, two daughters and his sister.
Begin, 73, was admitted Wednesday to Jerusalem’s Shaarei Tzedek hospital. He underwent an operation for the removal of his prostate gland at the same hospital about a year ago.
“The problem doesn’t seem to be serious. It doesn’t have anything to do with the heart,” said Sadan, declining to specify the nature of Begin’s illness.
Begin suffered a heart attack in 1977, before he became prime minister, and another in 1980. Begin served as Israeli prime minister from 1977 to 1983.
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