{"id":920706,"date":"2026-07-08T11:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/920706\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T11:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T11:06:19","slug":"hospital-spokesman-reveals-israeli-doctor-saved-erdogans-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/920706\/","title":{"rendered":"Hospital spokesman reveals: Israeli doctor saved Erdogan&#8217;s life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Former Ichilov Hospital spokesman Avi Shoshan claimed during a Channel 14 panel discussion that Israel once helped save the life of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan by sending an Israeli physician to treat him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Commenting on Erdo\u011fan&#8217;s appearance during the NATO summit, Shoshan said, &#8220;Do you know who looks unwell? Erdo\u011fan. And do you know why I think about that? Because Israel saved him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">According to Shoshan, a senior physician from Tel Aviv&#8217;s Ichilov Hospital, whose name he declined to reveal, was sent to treat Erdo\u011fan after he developed cancer.<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">&#8220;An Ichilov doctor &#8211; I won&#8217;t reveal his name &#8211; saved Erdo\u011fan,&#8221; he stressed. &#8220;A doctor from Israel. Israel saved him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Shoshan also stressed that this doctor acted as &#8220;a physician representing the State of Israel, at the request of the Mossad and with the approval of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, flew [there] and saved his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">&#8220;I remember every media outlet chasing me to confirm the story. At the time I didn&#8217;t confirm it, but Israel saved him,&#8221; Shoshan said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Criticizing the Turkish president, he slammed: &#8220;This man, who today threatens the Jews, is alive and breathing thanks to a Jew, thanks to an Israeli, thanks to Benjamin Netanyahu, and thanks to [former Mossad chief] David Barnea.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-5c642528=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Several years ago, Israeli media reported that Erdo\u011fan had received medical advice for a period from Israeli physician Prof. Itzhak Shapira, deputy director of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, who was also responsible for the hospital&#8217;s medical tourism program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Ichilov Hospital spokesman Avi Shoshan claimed during a Channel 14 panel discussion that Israel once helped save&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":920707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[372,14965,159268,99,371638,50,32307,24922],"class_list":["post-920706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-david-barnea","tag-ichilov-hospital","tag-israel","tag-medical-tourism","tag-news","tag-recep-tayyip-erdogan","tag-turkey"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116884038653741414","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}