Zambian President Michael Sata was receiving medical treatment in Israel on Thursday, an Israeli official said without elaborating on his condition. The disclosure came a day after Zambian Vice President Guy Scott told parliament in Lusaka that Sata, 76, was in Israel on a 'working holiday'. '(Sata) is here on a private visit and he is receiving medical treatment,' the Israeli official said. 'He did not come to lie on a beach.' Sata suffered a heart attack in 2008. Concerns about his health persisted and his opponents said he collapsed during a six-week election campaign in 2011 - an account he denied.
(photo credit: The Jerusalem Post)