Israel Government office torched in support of self-immolated protester

Vandals set fire to the entrance of a branch of the National Insurance Institute (Bituach Leumi) in Ramat Gan early Monday morning.

The words “Price tag Moshe Silman,” were written on the wall, referring to the man who set himself on fire during a protest in Tel Aviv on Saturday night.

Shortly after midnight on Monday, the fire department and police were called to the Ramat Gan branch of Bituach Leumi, on Hashmonaim Street.

Emergency services arrived on the scene to find the branch office’s entrance partly burned, and graffiti on the wall. Police have begun an investigation of the event.

Silman is suffering from second and third-degree burns on 94 percent of his body. According to Dr. Joseph Hayak, head of the burn unit at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, he is still in very serious condition.
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TEL AVIV, Israel — In the surge of Tel Aviv's social protests demonstration last night, a man read out a letter outlining his discontents, doused himself with fuel and set himself alight.

The man, Moshe Silman, 57, of Haifa, who was well known in the activist community, is in a medically induced coma with burns on 94 percent of his body. Doctors announced today that he has "low chances" of survival, and in an irony many have struggled to describe, a shortage of burn unit beds is keeping him for now, many hours after the self-immolation, in a standard ER.

The lack of hospital beds was one of the protest movement's earliest grievances. Professor Ze'ev Rotstein, Tel HaShomer's director, told Israel Army Radio that "the optimal care for him can only be found in a burn unit bed. It’s a question of resources."

From beginning to end, it is impossible to think of a more tragically fitting figure to represent the cause of Israelis who in last night's rallies marked one year of the Occupy movement in Tel Aviv.



Demonstrations have been ongoing with protesters demanding fairer distribution of goods and services in Israel. For the second weekend in a row, over 10,000 protestors gathered in Tel Aviv, several thousand more in Jerusalem.

Possibly due to the approach of Israel's electoral year, recent protests have taken a decidedly more political tone than last summer's mass movements. The Netanyahu government has also taken a more combative tone, accusing marchers and movement leaders of choosing political sides.`
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makes a change from israelis torching immigrants homes and kindergartens

DESTROY ZIONISM

Self-defense is not in the same category as anarchy.

Destroy hate.

attacking kindergartens and peoples homes while they sleep to you is 'self - defence'

no wonder every fucker hates you and cant wait for the bomb to drop

Likud gvt failing rapidly? Netanyahu feeling heat? Under pressure? Scared? Upset? Desperate?

Regime change about to happen?

"OH, I THINK IT IS VERY GOOD!!!"

hope so