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Netanyahu Reveals He Had Prostate Cancer and Underwent Radiation Therapy

for it, saying he did not want to publish his medical record “at the height of the war” with... His doctors shed little light on the timetable of his treatment, describing it in only vague...

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Netanyahu Reveals He Had Prostate Cancer and Underwent Radiation Therapy

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Netanyahu Reveals He Had Prostate Cancer and Underwent Radiation Therapy

The Israeli leader had surgery in 2024 for an enlarged prostate. More recently, follow-up care detected a tumor, his office disclosed on Friday.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel delivering a speech in January. He said on Friday that he had delayed telling Israelis about his cancer for “two months.”

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David M. Halbfinger

Reporting from Jerusalem

April 24, 2026,

11:51 a.m. ET

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said on Friday that he had been treated recently for prostate cancer, and his doctors said tests showed that the early-stage disease had “disappeared” after radiation therapy.

“Thank God, I am healthy,” Mr. Netanyahu, 76, said in a

post on social media

Mr. Netanyahu acknowledged having delayed telling Israelis about his cancer diagnosis for “two months” but gave a dubious explanation for it, saying he did not want to publish his medical record “at the height of the war” with Iran. The war began on Feb. 28.

His doctors shed little light on the timetable of his treatment, describing it in only vague terms. They said that, in follow-up care after a 2024 surgery to treat enlargement of Mr. Netanyahu’s prostate, a cancerous tumor of nine-tenths of a centimeter had been discovered.

Given the choice between monitoring the spread of the disease and treating it with radiation therapy, Mr. Netanyahu chose radiation, according to one of his doctors, Dr. Aron Popovtzer, the director of the Sharett Institute of Oncology at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

In a

video

released on Friday by the hospital, the doctor said that the treatment took place “two and a half months ago,” but also said that it “ended after about two and a half months.” A hospital spokeswoman did not immediately respond when asked to clarify the timetable.

A checkup after the radiation therapy, including imaging and blood tests, showed “that the disease has disappeared,” Dr. Popovtzer added. “There is no evidence of the disease.”

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