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Ex-Israeli president Peres critical after suffering stroke
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FORMER president and Nobel Peace Prize winner Shimon Peres, the last of Israel’s founding fathers, was in critical condition yesterday after suffering a major stroke and doctors were treating him in intensive care.
Nationwide concern mounted over the condition of 93-year-old Peres, widely respected as an elder statesman both in Israel and abroad, after his stroke on Tuesday.
“Mr Peres passed the night without any other incident,” Yitzhak Kreiss, director of the Sheba Medical Centre at Tel HaShomer in Ramat Gan, told reporters outside the hospital near Tel Aviv.
Kreiss described Peres’s condition as critical but stable.
The last of Israel’s founding fathers, Peres has held nearly every major office in the country, including prime minister twice and president, a mostly ceremonial post, from 2007 to 2014.
A former hawk turned dove, the highlight of his career came in 1994, when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Yitzhak Rabin and the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat for his role in negotiating the Oslo accords with the Palestinians.
Peres’s personal physician and son-in-law, Raphy Walden, said the former president’s chances for survival were “pretty good,” with no immediate threat to his life.
He added that Peres was responsive during treatment overnight. “When we lessened the sedation, he woke up — not completely but definitely was responsive to our appeals to him,” Walden said.
Kreiss had late on Tuesday described Peres as having suffered a “major stroke with a component of bleeding.”
He was sedated in the intensive care unit and was breathing through a respirator.
Peres’s son Chemi told journalists that “we are going to have to take difficult decisions apparently later, but not yet.
“Myself and my family members are going through difficult times, difficult hours.”
Statements of concern flooded in from across the political spectrum and dozens of journalists gathered outside the hospital, Israel’s largest, awaiting word on his condition.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had spoken with the director of the hospital to receive an update, a spokesman said. “The prime minister conveyed the prayers of the entire nation for a quick recovery,” his office said.
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