Gavra, that comment about atzlus is quite presumptuous, supercilious , patronizing, and downright inaccurate (read: a libelous lie). The average serious Israeli yungerman wakes at 6.30 to be back from davening at 7.30 to take 2+ kids to gan/caretaker and help his wife with the morning routine, getting another 3+ kids out to school, running to make the hasa’a to kollel at 8.15, often grabbing a bite on the jasa’ah, or skipping breakfast altogether. The time on the hasa’a is also not wasted, often there will be a Seder in the van, or he will learn half oof the day’s daf, or m.b. yomis.
After for hours of breaking his head on the sugia, (how much does university studying actually strain your mental capacity?) he either naps on four chairs in the kollel or runs home to pick up the 2+ kids from gan. It’s 2.15 when he arrives home, (on Tuesdays he will spend 2 minutes outside his door flipping through the Yated which is delivered for free that day before tossing it in the receptacle.) 3.26 he is running again to catch the hasa’a, panting he takes his seat and pulls a pocket mishnayos out. 8 o’clock finds him walking through his front door, does some homework with his older kids, sits down for pita and chummous, and is out the door to night Seder and ma’ariv. At eleven he writes/types some of his chidushim/sikumim of the day, and shmoozes with his wife. At 12 he comforts his 2 year old who woke up crying, hopefully by one he’s in bed, often chazzering the morning’s limud in his head so he’ll be able to jump right back into it in the morning. At 3 a.m. he makes a bottle for the newborn, and at 6.30 his alarm clock rings. This is an atzel?!?