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Former Bat Yam mayor injured in car bombing says he didn’t know of threat
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Former Bat Yam mayor Shlomi Lahiani arrives at the Hermon Prison to begin serving his 8-month sentence on December 27, 2015. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
The former mayor of Bat Yam is out of the hospital after sustaining light injuries in a suspected car bombing attack in Tel Aviv hours earlier, the Ynet news site reports.
Shlomo Lahiani tells the outlet that he did not feel threatened ahead of the attack and had not been informed by the police about anyone targeting him.
“I was driving in my car and I heard a loud boom. I saw my car was covered in soot,” he says.
“There’s no doubt that something is rotten in Israeli society,” adds the ex-politician, who was forced out of office over a decade ago by convictions for bribery and tax evasion.
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