{"id":169060,"date":"2026-04-24T15:45:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/?p=169060"},"modified":"2026-04-24T15:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T13:45:30","slug":"netanyahu-holl-cancerdiagnos-hemlig-under-iran-kriget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/netanyahu-holl-cancerdiagnos-hemlig-under-iran-kriget\/","title":{"rendered":"Netanyahu kept cancer diagnosis secret during Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>In the midst of the war with Iran, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu kept quiet about being treated for cancer. Now the revelation raises questions about why the information was withheld during the conflict.<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prime Minister of Israel <strong>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/strong> states that he deliberately delayed the publication of his medical report for two months. According to him, this was done so that the data would not be used by Iran during the war, reports <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-894069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Jerusalem Post<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is about an early prostate cancer that was reportedly detected during a routine check-up, treated and then disappeared. But it is the cover-up during an ongoing war that is now attracting the most attention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dI chose to delay the publication of the report so that it would not come out in the middle of the war and be used by Iran for propaganda.\u201d<\/em>, writes Netanyahu in a post on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/netanyahu\/status\/2047625296396845425\">X<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"iw\" dir=\"rtl\">\u05d4\u05d9\u05d5\u05dd \u05d4\u05ea\u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05dd \u05d4\u05d3\u05d5\u05f4\u05d7 \u05d4\u05e8\u05e4\u05d5\u05d0\u05d9 \u05d4\u05e9\u05e0\u05ea\u05d9 \u05e9\u05dc\u05d9.\u00a0<br><br>\u05d1\u05d9\u05e7\u05e9\u05ea\u05d9 \u05dc\u05e2\u05db\u05d1 \u05d0\u05ea \u05e4\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05de\u05d5 \u05d1\u05d7\u05d5\u05d3\u05e9\u05d9\u05d9\u05dd \u05db\u05d3\u05d9 \u05e9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05dc\u05d0 \u05d9\u05e4\u05d5\u05e8\u05e1\u05dd \u05d1\u05e9\u05d9\u05d0 \u05d4\u05de\u05dc\u05d7\u05de\u05d4 \u05e2\u05dc \u05de\u05e0\u05ea \u05e9\u05dc\u05d0 \u05dc\u05d0\u05e4\u05e9\u05e8 \u05dc\u05de\u05e9\u05d8\u05e8 \u05d4\u05d8\u05e8\u05d5\u05e8 \u05d1\u05d0\u05d9\u05e8\u05d0\u05df \u05dc\u05d4\u05e4\u05d9\u05e5 \u05e2\u05d5\u05d3 \u05ea\u05e2\u05de\u05d5\u05dc\u05ea \u05db\u05d6\u05d1 \u05e0\u05d2\u05d3 \u05d9\u05e9\u05e8\u05d0\u05dc.\u00a0<br><br>\u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05d1\u05e7\u05e9 \u05dc\u05e9\u05ea\u05e3 \u05d0\u05ea\u05db\u05dd \u05d1\u05e9\u05dc\u05d5\u05e9\u05d4 \u05d3\u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05dd:<br><br>1 - \u05d1\u05e8\u05d5\u05da \u05d4\u05e9\u05dd, \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d1\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0.<br><br>2 - \u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d1\u05db\u05d5\u05e9\u05e8 \u05d2\u05d5\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9 \u05de\u05e6\u05d5\u05d9\u05d9\u05df.<br><br>3 - \u05d4\u05d9\u05d9\u05ea\u05d4 \u05dc\u05d9 \u05d1\u05e2\u05d9\u05d4...<\/p>- Benjamin Netanyahu - \u05d1\u05e0\u05d9\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05ea\u05e0\u05d9\u05d4\u05d5 (@netanyahu) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netanyahu\/status\/2047625296396845425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 24, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Treated during the war<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the information, Netanyahu underwent targeted treatment during the war, but continued to work during the period. His doctors say that the treatment was successful and that the disease has not spread.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201dThank God, I am healthy.\u201d<\/em>, writes Netanyahu in the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The treatment of a sitting prime minister during wartime without public knowledge is described as unusual. The data has therefore opened up questions about transparency, decision-making and what was kept from the public during a period of very large security policy decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Coming in the middle of continued conflict<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The revelation comes as the conflict with Iran and the fragile ceasefire still dominate the region. This makes the timing politically sensitive, especially as Netanyahu himself links the delay to the war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, he says he is now fully recovered. A doctor who treated him states:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>- We can say, based on the results of the tests, that the disease has disappeared.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A secret illness announcement by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes up the fragile truce and raises new questions about what has been hidden<\/p>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":123603,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,1520,205],"tags":[1436,1057,282],"class_list":["post-169060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-utrikes","category-stor","category-nyheter","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-cancer","tag-israel"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frihetsnytt.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}