well, moshiach can come now- mdd and I are (virtually) on the same page! BTW- If you look up other threads, yo uwill find out that my ownc sons are in kollel. However, I think (of course!) that they are the cream of the crop and deserve to be there! In am more serious vein, they did not stay in kollel forever and are now “marbitz torah’! and this is why the israeli system is a failure. “lilmod ulelamed’ and only a very precious few can stay and learn forever.
to health: you either didn’t understand my words or chose to ignore them. What I said was that the government should forget to draft the avreichim and just stop the special finacial privileges that the kollelim get. (Yhey can still collect the normal welfare payments, of course). What will happen is that aa great part of those avreichim will go to work ( and the government will not hold them up) and a more meritorious system will evolve. This will solve many of the present problems. Some avreichim will choose to go to the army anyway. Some will just go to work and some jechidim will learn. BTW-this is a solution that a nummer of knesset members have advanced. However, as the rabbonim totally refused any compromise, we are now faced with a more dire law-still an improvement but I think that it could have been even better.