Man who self-immolated at David’s Tomb said suffering from mental illness

Police say the 54-year-old man who set himself on fire at David’s Tomb on Mount Zion, outside Jerusalem’s Old City, is a Jewish man apparently suffering from mental illness.

The man is now hospitalized in moderate to serious condition, and was saved by bystanders who rushed to put out the flames.

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