Reply To: Time to make the popcorn

AAQ – nothing to be proud of. There are millions of people who cheat on taxes or in business, or break immigration, driving and parking regulations.

These are bochurim who were legally exempt, and the Supreme Court-AG decided to change the law, without democratic process, specifically in order to make them “criminals”. No one even attempted to claim they weren’t actually learning. By the way, there is a certain Leftist “think tank” in Israel that is extremely hostile to Chareidim, who did an in depth study to try and “prove” that those registered as learning really don’t learn, and their conclusion was that over 90% of the bochurim registered do in fact learn full time. Those who do fudge the system are the ones who are already married for several years and start working before age 26, and even then at least 75% (by the “think tank’s” own hostile estimation) still actually learn enough hours a day to legally qualify for an exemption. We have discussed ad nauseam why the IDF as it is now is not an option for Chareidim even if they don’t learn. I’m not going to repeat the discussion yet again.