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‘[P]olls show that about 70 percent of Israelis—including a majority of those who voted for the ruling right-wing government—oppose the ultra-Orthodox [military] exemptions. A similar number opposes state subsidies to this community and its religious institutions. None of these preferences has changed government policy.’

“The war has sublimated the rage seething beneath the surface to the needs of national security,” writes Yair Rosenberg of an Israeli public infuriated about the continued subsidizing of a population which refuses to defend the country because it considers Israel the enemy.

Margaret Soltan, March 13, 2025 8:42AM
Posted in: forms of religious experience

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