Damaged iPhone 5

Hi
I really don't know where to start from, but ill try to cut it short.
My name is Dan, I live in Israel. We don't really have Apple support in here. Even tough we have a Apple Premium Reseller and Israel cellular providers have contracts with Apple, Apple doesn't really support customers in here.
I love Apple products, I had every iPhone, few iPods and two Macbooks Pro and iMac. I use to travel alot so only few of them I bought in Israel.
In the end of May I bought my second Macbook Pro in Miami Florida, only few hours before my flight back home.
When I opened it, it took me maybe 2 minutes to figure that something's wrong.
It was super slow, took maybe 50 seconds to log in each time, the same with mounting and unmounting IMG's, flash drives and so on.
Apple Care tried to help me, and after few hours we figured out that my RAM is damaged.
While trying to make it work better, they asked me to install Mountain Lion from scratch.
After I did it iLife was missing and it took me long time to convince them that this is not my fault and I don't need to pay in order to have it back.
Long story short I got redeem codes and installed iLife for free, but had to buy new RAM sticks to solve this problem.
Now for my main problem:
Two weeks ago I bought new iPhone 5 in Apple Store Barcelona.
Because of my Macbook problem I opened it in the store to check that everything is good, and it was.
Few hours after I got home, putted my Israeli sim-card and started to work with the phone.
The morning after I used it for 1-2 hours and than it shut off during phone call for no reason (maybe 40% battery).
Tried to turn it on again and nothing. Pluged it to the charger and nothing again.
When I plugged it to my Macbook iTunes announced that my iPhone is in recovery mode and I have to restore it, and this is what I did.
During the restore it flashed with blue screens and white stripes (Images attached).
When I called Apple support they said they have nothing to do with it since they don't have any support in Israel (Even tough Israeli cellular providers sell iPhones and iPhone 5 and they are supported by Apple).
The iPhone is working now, but few times a day it goes into Recovery Mode and I have to press both home and sleep buttons to hard reset it in order for it to come back to life.
This is my second really bad experience with Apple's most expensive products, and no one really care about it.
Just wanted to let you know I'm done with your unsupported products. Can't be that I buy two of your products and it damaged right from the box.

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