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Protests rock Israel July 2023. (Credit: Twitter user hugh_mankind) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was rushed to the hospital early Sunday for an unscheduled emergency pacemaker implant but announced afterward that he was “doing excellently.” The health scare comes as the country is gripped in turmoil and protests, with a crucial vote on judicial reform scheduled in the Knesset on Monday.Professor Roy Beinart, senior physician and director at the Davidai Arrhythmia Center at Sheba Medical Center’s Heart Institute, said that the patient was doing well:The implantation went smoothly, without any complications. He is not in a life-threatening condition. He...

Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was admitted to Washington Hospital Center for a heart procedure, although was released from the hospital earlier today. Rumsfeld was discharged Thursday from Washington Hospital Center, according to hospital spokesman Leroy Tillman. Tillman said that because of federal patient confidentiality regulations, he could not say how long Rumsfeld had been a patient, how Rumsfeld was doing or what unit had treated him. A source tells The Crypt that the 74-year-old Rumsfeld was held overnight in a VIP section of the hospital, and that he underwent a heart procedure while there. Rumsfeld, the architect of the...