Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has revealed he underwent treatment for early stage prostate cancer.
היום התפרסם הדו״ח הרפואי השנתי שלי.
ביקשתי לעכב את פרסומו בחודשיים כדי שהוא לא יפורסם בשיא המלחמה על מנת שלא לאפשר למשטר הטרור באיראן להפיץ עוד תעמולת כזב נגד ישראל.
אני מבקש לשתף אתכם בשלושה דברים:
1 – ברוך השם, אני בריא.
2 – אני בכושר גופני מצויין.
3 – הייתה לי בעיה…
— Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) April 24, 2026
Benjamin Netanyahu’s annual medical report was made public on Friday April 24. Posting on X, the Israeli Prime Minister said he was healthy and in ‘excellent physical condition’ following the procedure.
Sharing further details about what happened, he said: “I had a minor medical issue with my prostate that was completely treated. Thank God, it’s behind me.”
The 76 year-old said he underwent surgery for a benign prostate around a year and a half ago, describing it as successful. Since then, he has continued with routine medical check-ups.
During a recent monitoring appointment, Netanyahu said doctors found a ‘tiny spot of less than a centimeter’ in his prostate. He explained it was ‘a very early stage of a malignant tumour with no spread of metastases whatsoever’.
In his extended statement on X, he said he ‘underwent targeted treatment that removed the problem and left no trace of it’.
“Thank God, I overcame this too,” he added, before offering thanks to doctors and ‘the wonderful medical teams’.
Netanyahu also claimed he asked for the medical report’s release to be postponed. He wrote: “I requested to delay its publication by two months so that it would not be released at the height of the war, in order not to allow the Iranian terror regime to spread even more false propaganda against Israel.”
The Israeli Prime Minister has had other medical procedures in recent years. In 2023, he underwent surgery to have a pacemaker implanted after being taken to hospital three years ago for what doctors described as a ‘transient heart block’.
The pacemaker procedure followed an earlier hospital admission a week prior, after he was taken in ‘because he had a fainting episode’.
At the time, Netanyahu posted another update on X about the pacemaker. “Last week they gave me a monitoring device. The device beeped and said I need a pacemaker, and I need to do that already tonight. I feel great, but I listen to my doctors,” he said in the 2023 video.
In 2024, he underwent surgery again when he was treated for a hernia. He was placed under anesthesia for the procedure and temporarily stepped away from work, though he said he would return ‘very quickly’.
He also had hernia surgery in 2013.