A small number of activists of the Disabled IDF Veterans Association blocked an intersection and burned tires in Tel Aviv to demand increased benefits. Burning tires is a serious offense, but the police were understandably lenient.
Israel’s good health-care has played a statistical trick: Israel wars have left a relatively small number of dead. That is because the killed-to-wounded ratio in IDF is 1:16, much better than in Arab armies. But the high rate of survival translates into a huge number of disabled veterans, currently about 50,000. On average, an Israeli family pays $400 a year in taxes to support disabled veterans.
I think the sacrifice the wounded veterans have made can not be quantified in money. Every family OWES them a debt that can hardly be repaid.
Every Jew in the world owes them a debt that cannot be repaid in mere monrey!