Israel’s ultra-Orthodox headache
The Haredim now find themselves the target of anger, not only from a broad swathe of the public but even from their traditional allies in the religious-right coalition
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish minority, Haredi, has enjoyed a good run over the past quarter of a century.
Successive right-wing governments have handed them access to power and money, a booming economy saw the government agree to a lifetime of religious study for the community’s men who wanted it, and a relatively quiet security environment enabled the ultra-Orthodox to fend off calls to serve in the army like other Israeli Jews are required to.
But the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7 changed all that.
Nine months later, the Haredim now find themselves the target of anger, not only from a broad swathe of the public but even from their traditional allies in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s religious-right coalition. Indeed, current divisions over two pieces of Haredi-friendly legislation may even bring down the government.
The first bill — the so-called rabbis’ law — would have created hundreds of jobs for new municipal rabbis, whose salaries would be paid by the central government. In ordinary times, this law probably would have passed the Knesset without much fuss — just another measure to direct more public cash to the ultra-Orthodox. But this time, amid complaints that the government has no business sponsoring such legislation during a costly war, there’s been revolt even from the backbenchers in Netanyahu’s Likud party.
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Regarding the main entry, I have no idea why a country fighting for it’s life continues to be bothered by these religious morons.
If you go back 2000 years you find the Romans, who were attempting to better the lives of the people there (it was a Roman province), pestered by these same idiots. They crucified Jesus just to make the head Rabbi’s happy.
And then the Romans,when they finally lost all patience because said fanatics were busily killing Roman soldiers, edjumacated them by killing them all, destroying the second temple and finally…finally…trapping the remainder on the top of a fortress called Masada wherein said morons, when they saw the Romans had built a road up that mountain and the jig was up, damned if they didn’t go and off themselves, hero’s to the very last (and still today viewed that way)!
Truly, you can’t make this shit up and my view is if, IF, these religious nuts don’t want to fight for the country that they call home then fuck them! Why does Israel treat them so carefully? What is so special about them? Are normal Israeli’s all idiots?
What should happen is they should all be deported back to Russia or wherever the hell they came from. Israel doesn’t need the aggravation and they should be treated no different than any other citizen of that country.
If they can’t get with the program they should be forced to leave. A country is at stake.