Israeli Lawmakers Vote On Divisive Reforms As Benjamin Netanyahu Exits Hospital

Lawmakers debated through the night amid last-ditch efforts by Israel's President Isaac Herzog to reach a compromise.

Israeli lawmakers on Monday prepared for a final vote on a major component of the hard-right government's controversial judicial reforms even as US President Joe Biden called for postponing the "divisive" bill that has triggered mass protests.

Lawmakers debated through the night amid last-ditch efforts by Israel's President Isaac Herzog to reach a compromise. He met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a hospital where he had undergone surgery to fit a pacemaker.

On Monday, Mr Netanyahu was discharged from hospital following the surgery, said Sheba Medical Center, where he was fitted with pacemaker.