Man tries to set himself on fire at Beersheba City Hall

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Security guard prevents man who was complaining of financial and housing difficulties from carrying out self-immolation

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"A man threatened to set himself on fire at Beersheba City Hall on Sunday. The man was stopped by a security guard and transferred to police custody for questioning.

According to Israel Radio, the man was threatening to set himself ablaze because of financial and housing problems.

Overnight Friday a man in his 30s set himself on fire at a psychiatric hospital near Netanya.

Magen David Adom paramedics provided first aid treatment and transferred the man in critical condition from the Lev-Hasharon Mental Health Center in Pardesia to Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Hospital officials at Sheba stated that he was suffering from second and third degree burns on 60 percent of his body.

Three people have successfully set themselves on fire in Israel this month. The first was Moshe Silman, a disabled veteran from Haifa, who doused his body with flammable liquid and set it aflame during a protest for social justice in Tel Aviv on July 14."

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