Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attended a crucial session of Parliament on Tuesday to vote on the national budget, less than 48 hours after undergoing prostate surgery.
While his coalition is weakened, Netanyahu insisted on leaving the hospital to go in person to the Knesset, where he appeared well.
Shortly after arriving at the Knesset for crucial budget-related votes, the prime minister left the plenary with his personal doctor.
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He left after the first round of voting and returned a few minutes later.
In a series of consecutive votes in the Knesset plenary session, the coalition rejected several opposition amendments to the Profit Trapping Law, a key budget bill.
The far-right Otzma Yehudit party and the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Yisrael faction of the United Torah Judaism party have been threatening to oppose the profit trap law since Monday, insisting that their demands be met first.
Before the votes, Otzma Yehudit issued a statement saying that while he would oppose the law itself on second and third readings, his deputies would refrain from helping the opposition pass its amendments to the law .
According to reports, aides to the prime minister made contact with members of Agudat Yisrael and leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis in an attempt to rally the United Torah Judaism faction.
The 75-year-old Israeli leader underwent a successful prostate ablation on Sunday evening, as his country is at war with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“The Prime Minister has woken up from anesthesia and is doing well. He was transferred to the recovery unit and will remain under observation in the coming days,” the Hadassah hospital center in Jerusalem announced after his operation.
Netanyahu had hernia surgery in March after having a pacemaker implanted in July 2023.
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