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Haaretz said:
"As thousands marched down" Tel Aviv's Kaplan Street, "Silman poured gasoline on his body and set himself on fire." He was rushed to a hospital for treatment. He left a letter saying:
"The state of Israel stole from me and robbed me. It left me helpless.""Two Housing and Construction Ministry committees rejected me, even though I had a stroke."
His monthly 2,300 NIS (New Israeli Shekel) allowance left him no money for rent or medications. It's $582.
"I can't even live month to month. I won't be homeless, and so I am protesting."
He blamed "the state of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, for the humiliation that the weakened citizens go through every day, taking from the poor and giving to the rich."
His comments can easily be verified, he added.
They're true. Israel enriches privileged elites at the expense of most others. Unemployment, poverty, hunger, and homelessness are major problems like in America and other Western societies.
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