Shas lawmaker hospitalized while on vacation in Prague

MK Yigal Guetta has been moved between hospitals; Israelis officials working to fly him home for treatment

Shas MK Yigal Guetta in Jerusalem, February 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Shas MK Yigal Guetta in Jerusalem, February 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Shas MK Yigal Guetta was hospitalized in Prague on Monday after he felt ill while touring the Czech capital with his wife, the Israeli Foreign Ministry confirmed on Thursday.

Diplomatic officials have met with Guetta, the ministry said, and are working on preparing to fly him to Israel for further medical treatment.

Guetta’s condition was not disclosed, but was said to be serious enough to require being moved to a new hospital in Prague for appropriate treatment.

“The situation is known and is being dealt with,” the Foreign Ministry’s brief Thursday morning statement said. “The [Israeli] consul is with him now, and the ambassador spoke with the [Israeli] health minister [Yaakov Litzman].”

Guetta serves as Shas’s secretary-general and comes in at seventh place in its seven-member Knesset faction.

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