Reply To: Biggest supporter of Torah in the world

yeshivaman613-I DO appreciate how much the American government supports the Kollel community in America. BMG could probably not exist without it. I agree that every Jewish American should have tremendous hakaras hatov for that and the boundless chesed we receive in America.

Those benefits are available to every American. In Israel also, there are similar benefits eligible to every Israeli, including those learning full time. Child allowance, property tax reductions, national insurance reductions, daycare reductions, and welfare are for everyone, and to my knowledge, the government did not touch those.

Comparisons to money given to College students in Israel is also not fair. Most college students do not plan to make college a lifetime career. Even if they would, it is like children who complain, “Yanky got a bigger piece of cake than me…”. Anyone who is a talmid of the marvelous middos machine knows that that that is an example of bad middos and warrants a “middos alert”