“The Modern Orthodox and Dati Leumi worlds never adopted the Kollel for Everyone system and are doing fine. They also aren’t requiring massive government subsidies for their survival.”
Dr. Hall forgot about the 350 billion shekels annually that supports the settlements. It’s actually even more than that, but some parts of the settlement budget are ‘concealed’ in other budget items. This is besides the budget for hesder yeshivas. The entire chareidi education system receives about 200 billion shekels, and that’s for elementary schools too. The married kollel students are budgeted at about 800 shekels (approx. $200) per student per month. Unmarried yeshiva bochurim are budgeted at about half of that.
All the arguments and explanations that you will use to justify the settlement budget, how necessary it is for the nation’s security, etc. can be applied to the chareidi kollel system as well.
As an aside, some Dati Leumi Roshei Yeshiva or Roshei Kollel in a moment of candor are sometimes willing to admit which system is producing greater Talmidei Chachamim.