If there’s a ratchet effect where knocking him out of the office means that he’s debarred from getting back in for the foreseeable future, then obviously his enemies have every incentive to say damn the torpedoes, blow him out of the game and sort out the rest at their leisure — they hope.

But how did the media keep the masses ignorant about such an obvious menace to safety and the Israeli way of life?

THIS is the Great Mystery to their American friends on the Right.

They enter the labor force later and work somewhat lower hours.

https://machon.org.il/en/publication/haredi-employment-facts-and-figures-and-the-story-behind-them/

Haredi are Handy for picking up the pieces (of you). They otherwise appear to be a net drain unless obscure textual studies and speculations are a high priority.

If Israeli national survival ever became last stand skin of the teeth like in Israel I guess they’d make effective human shields and just add water instant minefield clearance experts, voluntary or otherwise. Quantity has a Quality all of its own.

Having your own country is good. It also invites Irony into your lives.

Every country has its people tax. America has the Black Tax, Israel has the Haredi Tax and no doubt the Ethiopian Jew Tax. It’s OK when the good times roll.

Can’t help thinking of the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy episode about the space ship full of Telephone Sanitizers sent out to colonise a new planet ahead of the Engineers and Doctors. They were told it was their honour to go out first as they were the special people.

Don’t know anything about Bennett except saw a quote somewhere purporting to be him saying that it was time for Israel to stop taking financial aid from the US because it’s perfectly capable of standing on its own two feet.

“He left France because of increasing anti-Semitism. I really cannot fathom how his “brain” works. But I stay Facebook friends with him because it’s kind of like slowing down to rubberneck at a train wreck. His trainwreck.”

On the plus side, he didn’t emigrate to Florida to ruin it by voting Democrat and only then bug out to Israel to ruin it too by voting for rainbow flags, etc. I like a man who cuts to the chase. And at least in Israel with some real existential skin in the game there’s some tiny chance that he might learn. Eventually.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/haredi-population-growing-twice-as-fast-as-total-israeli-population-report/

This says 1.18 million.

Oh, that’s easy:
https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/david_bengurion_146266

Pipes is half right and mostly wrong…

There will be no successful partnership between the conservative and centrist factions because neither one is willing to address the source of Muslim hate.

Nor will any Israeli government succeed in integrating its Haredi and Muslim citizens. As both are theologically opposed to integration.