An indictement was filed in the Lod District Court on Sunday, charging a 31-year-old resident of Rishon Lezion with seven cases of arson in the city during May, which caused damage to property amounting to more than a million shekels.
The defendant claimed during his interrogation that he committed the first arson because he was angry at a friend who did not mourn his mother's death, but set the other fires for no reason.