Former Israeli President Shimon Peres has been taken to a hospital after “having suffered a brain episode”, the office of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said Tuesday.
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Former Israeli president Shimon Peres was hospitalised on Tuesday (Sept 13) after suffering a stroke, but he is conscious and in stable condition, his office said in a statement. He was expected to undergo a CT scan.
Another TV station, Channel 2, reporting from the hospital, described the stroke as “significant” and “serious”.
In a career spanning almost seven decades, Peres, 93, served in a dozen cabinets and twice as a Labour Party prime minister, even though he never won a general election outright in five tries from 1977 to 1996.
Peres shared the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for signing the 1993 interim Oslo peace accords.
Ayelet Frisch said that he was stable and fully conscious. As president he developed an image as the country’s elder statesman and became a popular figure at events like the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Associated Press reported. Peres suffered stroke on September 13, 2016.
The former president, who ended his tenure in 2014, remained active in the public sphere through his activities at the Peres Center for Peace, advocating for coexistence and peace between Jews and Arabs in the Middle East.
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In a message posted on Facebook, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wished Peres a speedy recovery.
