{"id":628417,"date":"2026-04-24T18:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628417\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T18:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T18:47:08","slug":"israeli-prime-minister-benjamin-netanyahu-treated-for-prostate-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/628417\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu treated for prostate cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has been treated for early-stage prostate cancer but delayed telling the public due to the Iran war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The 76-year-old posted on social media, saying a malignant tumour was discovered during a routine check-up and he has since undergone &#8220;targeted treatment&#8221; to remove &#8220;the problem&#8221;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He said he was treated with radiation therapy but did not specify when.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">\u201cI requested to delay its publication by two months so that it would not be released at the height of the war,&#8221; Mr Netanyahu said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">He said the delayed release of his medical report was to prevent \u201cmore false propaganda against Israel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">In March, rumours began circulating on social media and on Iranian state media that Mr Netanyahu had died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The Israeli leader recorded a video of himself visiting a cafe in Jerusalem to refute the claims.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-04-11\/iran-war-reshaping-us-politics-trump-netanyahu\/106552156\" data-component=\"FullBleedLink\" class=\"RelatedCard_link__rsgR9 FullBleedLink_root__lTw_U interactive_focusContext__yRhc_ interactive_defaults__AKxUU FullBleedLink_showVisited__g3Xvz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">How Trump was sold war in Iran<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Typography_base__sj2RP RelatedCard_synopsis__cFwMW Typography_sizeMobile14__u7TGe Typography_lineHeightMobile20___U7Vr Typography_regular__WeIG6 Typography_colourInherit__dfnUx\" data-component=\"Typography\">From bold promises of quick victory to a fog of missing facts, new reporting exposes the gap between the promise of quick regime change in Iran and the reality as popular opinion turns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The director of Hadassah Hospital\u2019s oncology unit where Mr Netanyahu was treated said the prime minister was diagnosed at an early stage and that prostate cancer was common among men his age.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">\u201cWe can say based on the findings of these tests that the disease has disappeared,\u201d Aharon Popovtser said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Israel\u2019s longest-serving prime minister, who is overseeing not just the war in Iran but also conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon, has previously faced criticism for not disclosing information about his health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">A week after he fainted at a public appearance in 2023 he told the public he had a pacemaker fitted over a long-standing heart condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Mr Netanyahu also underwent surgery on his prostate in 2024 after he was diagnosed with a urinary tract infection resulting from a benign prostate enlargement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">AP\/Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has been treated for early-stage prostate cancer but delayed telling the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":628418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6896,32534,43,206980,44,16758,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-628417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-cancer-diagnosis","tag-headlines","tag-iran-war","tag-news","tag-prostate-cancer","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}