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Israeli man sets himself on fire during Tel Aviv social protest

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Destro7/15/2012 3:17:00 am PDT

re: #20 Bob Levin

You’ve made another misinterpretation. It is a personal tragedy. No one said otherwise. But it doesn’t go any farther.

And this:

His sister, Bat Tzion, said, “My brother was a businessman, but he failed and they took everything away from him.”

Silman’s nephew, Ofer Elul, said his uncle “got into trouble with the Tax Authority and National Insurance Institute – and they left him with nothing. They took his home – everything.”

I guess they needed to keep taxes low on millionares a fraction of a % or some such so they made a man down on his luck so desperate he had to torch himself. But Bibi will look into why his own govts policies caused this to happen.