Toi- I don’t believe your figures. You better show me where that is mentioned.
shikron- actually, you and I and some very senior people in the government agree. Allow all the chareidim above a certain age (say 28) to work without going to the army and eliminate all extra financial support to the chareidi Tsibur. Your problem is that the Rabbonim of the chareidim will fight that too, because they would lose all their power and influence and lose jobs. Do you know how many jobs there are today in kollels and other yeshiva bodies? This would be drastically reduced if chareidim would be allowed to go to work- because they would leave kollel en masse.The problem is that the chareidi “tsibbur’ has been cossetted by all governments for the last sixty years and they are ill prepared to enter the work force. Only a drastic change can bring this about and the fight aganst ANY move cutting funds or to introduce a modicum of secular studies stands inthe way.
This is a fight that will not end well for anyone.