Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday he was going to the hospital for an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker, but vowed to press ahead with his controversial judicial overhaul plan.
In a brief videotaped statement released at 2 a.m. local time, Netanyahu said he had been fitted with a monitoring device after being briefly hospitalized last week for what his office had said was dehydration.
He said an alarm on the device beeped Saturday night, meaning he needed a pacemaker immediately.
“I feel excellent, but I listen to my doctors,” he said.
In a short statement, Netanyahu’s office said Israel’s leader
