Moshe Silman, an Israeli, set himself on fire on July 14 in Tel Aviv to protest government policies that had left him on the brink of homelessness. He died Friday. Some other Israelis have self-immolated since.
Pain. Imagine the pain of burning to death. And the psychic pain to decide to burn oneself to death. Today there is pain in the great, good soul of Israel, founded as a home for homeless Jews worldwide. Imagine the pain of Israel today that Moshe Silman, whose parents escaped Hitler's ovens, died in his own, in the heart of the country founded as refuge for Jews who might be burned to death by others.
