Netanyahu updates that MK Gafni suffered a heart attack – and corrected himself: “Happy to announce that this is Pike News”

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“I send my best wishes for a speedy recovery to Moshe Gafni, who suffered a heart attack and was hospitalized,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened the press conference he convened today (Tuesday) at the Leumit Health Fund in Ashdod with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein.

Photo: From the Prime Minister’s Facebook page

His remarks caused a great deal of concern, but by the end of the briefing it turned out to be a mistake. “I’m being corrected here now, and I’m happy with the correction, this is Pike News,” Netanyahu said. “Gafni just got vaccinated and it’s good that way, God willing.”

In response to Netanyahu’s remarks, MK Ahmad Tibi tweeted: “I called MK Gafni and he is feeling well. I wish him health and longevity. As for Netanyahu – I wish that was his obvious mistake.”

MK Gafni, who also serves as chairman of the Finance Committee, revealed during a Knesset debate last September that he had a heart attack. “I felt I could not walk, my wife told me not to close your eyes, I do not let you,” Gaffney said at the hearing. “So that the children would not worry, I went to Ezer Mitzion, there were two doctors, Arabs by chance, my friends. I asked them to give me a blow I got in the eye from the fall.

Gafni thought it was an exaggeration, but decided to go to Maayan Hayeshua Hospital. “There was Dr. Zahalka, a cousin of a former Knesset member, he looks at me and does not tell jokes, we are friends, I ask him, what is happening? He tells me, is this your test? I told him yes, it’s mine. They immediately called the doctor, and brought him with his staff. He told me, you’re undergoing a catheterization now, you’m in the middle of an incident. He did not understand how I was laughing. It was a miracle from heaven, I did not know I was in the middle of a heartbreaking event. “

Gafni later said: “They brought in Prof. Agranat, the director of the department, who immediately did a catheterization – and it saved my life.”

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