Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, had a successful pacemaker implantation procedure

Following a successful pacemaker insertion operation on Sunday, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will soon cast his vote in the Knesset on a divisive judicial reform measure.

A week after being hospitalized for dehydration and having a cardiac monitoring device put, Netanyahu, 73, received the pacemaker.

The procedure was performed early on Sunday at Ramat Gan’s Sheba Medical Center.

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, the procedure was successful, the patient was in excellent health, and he was scheduled to be released on Sunday.

Netanyahu has previously tweeted that he will be given the implant, which stimulates the heart with electrical pulses.

According to the Prime Minister’s office, he had surgery while under anesthesia, and Yariv Levin, the deputy prime minister and minister of justice, functioned as acting prime minister throughout Nethanyahu’s procedure.

The news also happened just before the bill’s second and third — and final — readings, which were scheduled to take place on Monday or Tuesday in the Knesset, Israel’s parliament.

A large number of people have protested the legislation, which is a component of a larger plan to reform the judiciary, and thousands have set up a tent city next to the Knesset. Additionally, 10,000 reservists have said that they would stop volunteering if the legislation becomes law.

The regularly planned Sunday morning cabinet meeting was postponed until an upcoming time. Key security conversations about the effect of the “reasonableness” law and the reservists’ threats on Israel’s security, including a rumored meeting between the PM and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, were also postponed, the source stated.

After a five-day journey from Tel Aviv, thousands of protesters marched to Jerusalem on Saturday to express their opposition to Netanyahu’s proposals to curtail the authority of Israel’s courts.

On Sunday, the Knesset will start debating a measure that would take away the Supreme Court’s ability to deem government actions “unreasonable,” eliminating one of the few balances on the government in a nation without a written Constitution.

Yoav Gallant, the defense minister and a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, is attempting to postpone the vote after more than 1,000 Air Force reserve officers vowed to cease volunteering if the measure passed, adding to the pressure on Netanyahu.

Over the course of more than six months, internal resistance to Netanyahu’s ultra-hardline coalition government’s intentions to reform the court has grown.

The first reform measure to go forward after Netanyahu briefly halted the legislative frenzy in late March is a plan to prevent judicial review of the “reasonability” of political choices. At the conclusion of the month, the Knesset adjourns for the summer.

Three allegations of fraud and breach of trust as well as one count of bribery have been brought against Netanyahu, who is currently facing a drawn-out corruption prosecution. He claims he is the target of a political witch hunt and refutes all of the accusations.

A pacemaker is a medical device that stimulates the heart to regulate or speed up an irregular or excessively sluggish pulse. According to the US hospital Mayo Clinic and the British National Health Service, implanting normally takes several hours, and patients are frequently released from the hospital the same day or the next day.