The Health Ministry announced on Monday that a 50-year-old man who was diagnosed with the H1N1 swine flu virus has died at Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba. The victim, who was in a high-risk group, was hospitalized a month and a half ago with other diseases which caused him shortness of breath.
The ministry said that although it cannot be said with certainty that the virus caused his death, the man is being listed as Israel's 24th fatality from the swine flu.