A rumor spread on motzei Shabbos of the petira of former MK, cabinet minster and retired senior IDF officer Binyamin Ben-Eliezer. The report stated he was niftar in Assaf HaRofeh Hospital where he has been in an intensive care unit.
Assaf HaRofeh released a message to the tzibur that the minister is alive and due to a change in his condition he was moved from a general ICU to a cardiac intensive care unit and his condition is listed as stable.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Jerusalem Post and Arutz Sheva have both confirmed his death, along with published official condolences.