SHIMON PERES HOSPITALISED
The Israeli President has been taken to the hospital after he briefly fainted on stage while speaking at an event in Tel Aviv.
Shimon Peres was answering questions from a crowd after a talk on young leadership when he passed out late on Saturday, paramedics told Israeli media.
The Agencies
Shimon Peres was answering questions from a crowd after a talk on young leadership when he passed out late on Saturday, paramedics told Israeli media.
- The 86-year-old statesman was treated by medics on the spot and then taken to the Tel Hashomer hospital for tests following his collapse at the Yitzhak Rabin Centre, they said.
- Dr Ari Shamis of the hospital told Channel 10 TV that Peres would be held in hospital overnight for observation, adding that he was not in danger and that he had "spontaneously regained consciousness."
- Peres's personal physician, who was attending him, was quoted by Israel's YNet news Web site as saying Peres was not gravely ill and would spend a night in hospital under observation before returning to his duties.
- "His condition is satisfactory," Rafi Valdan, said. "We are transferring him for monitoring for the night ... and I expect he'll be back at work tomorrow."
- Peres is not known to suffer from any health problems.
- He was elected to parliament on the Labour party ticket in 1959 and held a succession of Israel's most senior posts, including the premiership and the defence and foreign affairs portfolios before being elected in 2007 for a seven-year term in the nonpartisan, largely ceremonial office of president.
PERES SAYS ISRAEL KILLS FOR DEMOCRACY
We know it is happening but this abnormal situation and disorder was accepted by many as if it just of one these things that happen around the world.
Israeli President Shimon Peres says the war on Gaza was not "an ugly story", insisting that the global condemnation of Tel Aviv is unjust."They try to make the Israeli policy an ugly story," a frustrated Peres was quoted by the Associated Press at a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday night.
He explained that his outburst was the result of repeated criticism over Israel's Gaza operation.
The Israeli president, however, maintains that Tel Aviv is fighting a noble war against Hamas the democratically elected ruler of the Gaza Strip.
"Israel is a democracy. It is fighting one of the most dangerous, terroristic, dictatorial groups. All of a sudden to be a humanitarian is to support dictators, to support terror, to support killing innocent people," he said at the forum.Meanwhile, UK aid agencies say as a result of the Israeli operation in the beleaguered coastal sliver, at least 60 percent of the Gaza population is now living in poverty, with more than one million people dependant on aid to survive.
Courtesy: Press TV
PERES SAYS ISRAEL KILLS FOR 'DEMOCRACY'
BREAKING NEWS
Israeli President Shimon Peres says the war on Gaza was not "an ugly story", insisting that the global condemnation of Tel Aviv is unjust.
"They try to make the Israeli policy an ugly story," a frustrated Peres was quoted by the Associated Press at a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday night.
Israeli President Shimon Peres says the war on Gaza was not "an ugly story", insisting that the global condemnation of Tel Aviv is unjust. "They try to make the Israeli policy an ugly story," a frustrated Peres was quoted by the Associated Press at a session of the World Economic Forum on Thursday night.
He explained that his outburst was the result of repeated criticism over Israel's Gaza operation.
The Israeli president, however, maintains that Tel Aviv is fighting a noble war against Hamas, the democratically-elected ruler of the Gaza Strip.
"Israel is a democracy. It is fighting one of the most dangerous, terroristic, dictatorial groups. All of a sudden to be a humanitarian is to support dictators, to support terror, to support killing innocent people," he said at the forum.
An angry exchange between President Peres and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had forced the latter to storm off the stage at the World Economic Forum.
Erdogan had become incensed after the moderator curtailed his response to Peres' angry remarks regarding the recent Israeli military campaign.
The Turkish premier has vowed never to return to the annual gathering.
Source: AP
The Israeli president, however, maintains that Tel Aviv is fighting a noble war against Hamas, the democratically-elected ruler of the Gaza Strip.
"Israel is a democracy. It is fighting one of the most dangerous, terroristic, dictatorial groups. All of a sudden to be a humanitarian is to support dictators, to support terror, to support killing innocent people," he said at the forum.
An angry exchange between President Peres and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan had forced the latter to storm off the stage at the World Economic Forum.Erdogan had become incensed after the moderator curtailed his response to Peres' angry remarks regarding the recent Israeli military campaign.
The Turkish premier has vowed never to return to the annual gathering.
Source: AP
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