Moderator: thanks for the update. It seemed a lot more in recent times.
Health: Your facts are wrong. In the “milchemet hshichrur” -1948- plenty of chareidim fought in the haganah and etzel. Even after the founding of the medinah, many chareidim went to the army. Only a very few select people stayed and learned and that was the deal with ben Gurion.
That deal has now grown exponentially and is not sustainable-including the fact that the economic burden is beyond the scope of the country. That is what the new law intended to do: choose a select few (well in the thousands, mind you)and allow the others to go on living a normal life. That snesible plan is being opposed by the chareidi leadership-for spurious reasons.