Former Israel President rushed to hospital a week after suffering a heart attack
ISRAEL’S former president has been rushed to hospital just a week after suffering a mild heart attack.
Former Israel President Shimon Peres has been rushed to hospital
92-year-old Shimon Peres was suffered chest pains and was taken into hospital again after having been discharged last Tuesday, his spokeswoman said.
Ayelet Frisch said medics treated the statesman at his home and detected a "light irregular heart rate”.
Due to the diagnosis, his doctors decided that the 9th President will spend the night in hospital
Ms Frisch added: "Due to the diagnosis, his doctors decided that the 9th President will spend the night in hospital for observation and testing.”
Peres won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 following the signing of the Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians a year earlier, a prize he shared with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
He completed his seven year term as president in 2014 and remains in the public eye. He is still active through his non-governmental Peres Center for Peace, which promotes coexistence between Arabs and Jews and peace and development in the Middle East.