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I am talking about the proliferation of post yeshiva and sem practical training institutes, which even prepare haredim for advanced secular degrees such as law, in EY. The government discourages these efforts from getting too far “out of hand”. My information regarding this just so happens to be first hand, not what I read in some rag like Am Ha’Aretz.
A few “good haredim” in the workforce only allows the left to point to the rest of the community and to pat a few poster boys on the back occasionally. Dudi Zilberschlag was one of those poster boys; in a recent interview he said he is becoming far more militant toward the institutions of the medine (though he continues to help its weakest citizens regardless of their level of observance or beliefs via Meir Panim). A revolution of the type that the community would like to see, where its members could live and work as they do in the US, Canada and Europe, would bring about a wave of tshuva which the medine is not ready for. Army service? Too many soldiers as it is; the medine likes the present situation as they don’t need the charedim anyway and then can point to them as shirkers. National service would only expand the Meir Panims out there and yes, there we go again, more tshuva.
Thanks to the deracination of Edot haMizrah immigrants by the medine, EY is the only place where you find convicts bearing surnames like Kadosh, Hasid, Mevorach and yes, Zakai! Their counterparts who got out of the morass or avoided it altogether are successful merchants and professionals in France, the US, Canada and many other places.
As for the horrendous treason of the zionists during the Shoah, it was just proven beyond a doubt that instead of continuing a boycott of the Nazi government that could have brought this malchis harisha to its knees, the zionists accepted blood money and a pitiful number of Jews to stop the boycott. That is what happens when you take the concept of am Yisroel which is kedusha and turn it into the hepech hakedusha of modern, G-dless nationalism.
Immigration to EY? There were not enough visas to go around and we know who took more than their fair share. The whole point was moot and whichever way you look at it Hashem decreed that the leaders of Torah should be saved in order to plant the seeds of Torah in free soil.
The present medine is a toeva that must fall (it COULD have been something else but as we are in golus and the medine is tiff in golus the misyavnim won and are running it into the ground) but to avoid bloodshed let it fall to Moshiach already. While it is our obligation to strengthen Jews living in EY by bringing them to Torah, and the fact is that the medine did happen, it is not any sort of geulah. The medine is to the geula as chas vesholom a malignant cell is to a healthy one.
The medine is like bringing davar acher to the mizbeach because a malchus tuma in Eretz haKoidesh is exactly that – davar acher al gabei hamizbeach (chas vesholom)!