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Also, there were very few visas available to Mandate Palestine; the debate over the rabbonim who told their followers to stay is almost moot as there was nowhere for them to go after the Evian Conference.
There indeed were abuses of the visa process by the Labor Zionists and unbelievably callous quotes which showed that their priority was to build a state for their own egos and ideologies at any human cost. I can’t even post them here; they are worse than obscenities.
Bar-Ilan has attracted more and more secular students; it is not a successful institution as far as any sort of Torah values are concerned. It is not the YU of E”Y, but rather a “Jew-ish” Brandeis with a small kipa.
And the reason you do not get appeals from Zionist institutions in EY is that they are government controlled, sponsored and (overtly or covertly) monitored.
In the end, the economic crisis will be a nightmare for secular and religious Zionists alike as charedim enter the mainstream workforce and excel as we do in other countries. The failure to do so in E”Y has to do with politics and it indeed cannot stay that way.
And if there is an alternative service bill, then what you will see is 100 more Yad Sarahs and Ezer MiTzions and Migdal Ohrs that serve every sector of society and will end up bringing charedim even further into the mainstream. (That is why it is the medine that does not want charedim serving in any way; my friends who ended up leaving E”Y for Chabad shlichus abroad would have been a threat to the secularizing nature of the army and the last thing the medine wants is these guys manning social service organizations all over the country and spreading Yiddishkeit as they go along).