Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shared on Sunday that he will undergo an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker.
A pacemaker sends electrical pulses to the heart to increase or maintain a person’s heartbeat within the normal range, to allow the heart to pump blood at a normal rate inside the body. The medical device is used when a person’s heart is beating too slowly or to treat heart failure.
The surgery is scheduled overnight between Saturday and Sunday, Mr. Netanyahu said in a video statement released by his office at 2 a.m. local time Sunday.
“A week ago, I was fitted with a monitoring device. That device beeped this evening and said I must receive a pacemaker and that I must do this already tonight,” Netanyahu, 73, said. “I feel great, but I need to listen to my doctors.”…