A Jewish man from northern Israel returned 700,000 shekels ($165,300) to the government that he was granted as compensation for the summer’s war. He said he did not deserve it.

The man sent the check to the Israel Tax Authority, Globes reported, with the explanation that the amount he received was not commensurate to his business activity during the period in question.

A spokesman for the Tax Authority confirmed that the man received the correct compensation under the rules outlined by the government for determining the sum. He said the man was not correcting overcompensation due to a human or computer error, but rather his own assessment of his wartime losses.

The honest citizen said that he had reduced his business activity prior to the war and was therefore not entitled to the amount outlined under the state-issued guidelines, which determine the figure based on past years’ earnings.

Millions of dollars in compensation has been distributed to businesses and individuals in northern Israel who suffered losses as a result of the war with Hizbullah over the summer.