Raids reflect public anger at failure to reform economy amid worst crisis in 100 years that has plunged three-quarters of population into poverty

Robberies are seen as acts of distress and garner widespread sympathy from public amid country's worst-ever financial crisis

Many cheer Sali Hafiz, says she used toy gun to take $13,000 of her family's deposits before escaping

Abdallah Assaii arrested after holding seven bank employees hostage, dousing them in gasoline and threatening to set them on fire unless provided with $50,000 from his account

Ex-con caught after stealing tens of thousands of shekels from Beersheba banks by threatening to 'blow up' a painted avocado