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Israeli veterans and disabled IDF soldiers protest outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv for better financial and medical aid, April 18, 2021.(Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
Amid a growing outcry over alleged government neglect of soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with IDF Disabled Veterans Organization chairman Idan Kliman Sunday afternoon, and vowed to pass governmental reform on the issue within two weeks.
The meeting, which came a week after an IDF veteran suffering from PTSD set himself alight outside a Defense Ministry Rehabilitation Department office, took place as hundreds protested current government benefits, blocking Tel Aviv’s central Ayalon highway and demonstrating outside the Defense Ministry.