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Ronny Linder-Ganz
Ronny Linder-Ganz

In 2009, two years after he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, former prime minister Ehud Olmert announced he would undergo surgery to remove the tumor in the United States, with the aid of a da Vinci robot.  His announcement introduced the public to the four-armed technological wonder used to perform complicated surgery in place of a human surgeon.