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Man tries to set fire to himself at a veterans rehab office in Tiberias
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Wounded IDF veterans block traffic during a protest in Jerusalem on May 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A man tries to set fire to himself and a Defense Ministry rehabilitation center for wounded veterans in the northern town of Tiberias.
The ministry says the man was quickly stopped as he tried to pour a flammable liquid on the building.
Medics took the man to a local hospital for an evaluation. The hospital said he was lightly wounded.
The Defense Ministry says that the man was apparently disgruntled as his application to be recognized as a wounded veteran had been dismissed in 2012.
The incident comes on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day.
In 2021, Itzik Saidyan, a former soldier suffering from PTSD, set himself on fire and was critically wounded in a protest that sparked a national reckoning over Israel’s treatment of wounded soldiers.
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