Former Israeli president Shimon Peres was admitted to hospital on Thursday morning after experiencing chest pains.
The 92-year-old is reportedly now in a “stable condition” following an operation - a cardiac catheterisation - after doctors discovered a narrowed artery in his heart.
Ayelet Frish, the former president's communications consultant, said that Peres "woke up this morning at his home with palpitations and a feeling of constriction on his chest.”
Magen David Adom was called to the scene before taking Mr Peres to Shheba Medical Center Hospital near Tel Aviv.
