JERUSALEM, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) — Former Israeli President Shimon Peres suffered a stroke on Tuesday night and was admitted to the Chaim Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer outside Tel Aviv for urgent treatment, physicians said Wednesday.
Peres was “fighting for his life and treated in the intensive care unit” after sustaining a major stroke, the physicians treating him told reporters on Wednesday.
On Wednesday morning, Yitzhak Kreiss, director of the Tel Hashomer Hospital, told reporters that Peres was in a “serious but stable” condition.
“Mr. Peres has survived the night,” Kreiss said, adding that Peres is currently sedated and was put on a respirator.
The doctors had decided not to operate him because he might not sustain the procedure, Kreiss said.
Rafi Walden, Peres’ son-in-law and his personal physician, said that the stroke occurred in the right side of Peres’ brain.
Peres, 93, one of the last founding fathers of the nation, served as a prime minister and was one of the leaders of the 1994 “Oslo Peace Accords” with the Palestinians.
He served as Israel’s president between 2007 and 2014.
Later, he 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.
