Shimon Peres back in hospital

The former president of Israel, who is 92, has chest pains.

JERUSALEM — Israel’s former president, Shimon Peres, was taken to a hospital after experiencing chest pains, just a week after suffering a mild heart attack, his spokeswoman said Sunday night.

The 92-year-old statesman had been discharged from a hospital Tuesday.

Medics treated Peres at his home and detected an irregular heartbeat after conducting an EKG test, spokeswoman Ayelet Frisch said. She said he would spend the night in the hospital for observation and testing.

Once he was at the hospital, Peres’ heartbeat regained its regular rhythm, “so he is feeling perfectly well now,” his personal physician, Rafi Walden, said later Sunday.

Peres was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1994 after the signing of the Oslo peace accords with the Palestinians a year earlier, a prize he shared with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was later assassinated, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died in 2004.

In 2014, Peres completed his seven-year term as president. He is still active through his nongovernmental Peres Center for Peace, which promotes coexistence between Arabs and Jews and peace and development in the Middle East.

Peres has filled nearly every position in Israeli public life since he became the director general of the Defense Ministry at the age of 29 and spearheaded the development of Israel’s nuclear program.

He has since held every major Cabinet post, including defense, finance and foreign affairs, and served three brief stints as prime minister in 1977, 1984 and 1995.