Peres Goes Home After Hernia Surgery
Israeli President Shimon Peres returned home from the hospital after hernia surgery.
Peres returned home Sunday after undergoing the surgery on May 11 at the Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Doctors said the surgery was successful. The hernia was discovered in Peres’ abdomen during his state visit last week to Canada. He did not cut his trip short due to the hernia.
He was visited in the hospital Saturday night by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Peres, 88, on Sunday thanked the staff at Sheba for “their professional and dedicated care.”
Peres had been scheduled to present the prestigious Wolf Prizes on Sunday evening, but will likely have to remain at home for the awards ceremony.
Why I became the Forward’s editor-in-chief
You are surely a friend of the Forward if you’re reading this. And so it’s with excitement and awe — of all that the Forward is, was, and will be — that I introduce myself to you as the Forward’s newest editor-in-chief.
And what a time to step into the leadership of this storied Jewish institution! For 129 years, the Forward has shaped and told the American Jewish story. I’m stepping in at an intense time for Jews the world over. We urgently need the Forward’s courageous, unflinching journalism — not only as a source of reliable information, but to provide inspiration, healing and hope.
— Alyssa Katz, editor-in-chief
Support our mission to tell the Jewish story fully and fairly.
