yichusdik -“For all those who continue to refer to Ben Gurion’s agreement with the Chazon Ish; let’s consider the implications. If you wish to go by the letter of the agreement at the time, it was an exemption from service – it didn’t include the more than $14,000 US per year that kollel learners are currently receiving from the government. So perhaps you are right, and the exemption should be extended. And perhaps the letter of the agreement should be respected, and the current subsidies eliminated. University students who receive similar stipends made their own arrangements.”
You never fail to disappoint me with your twisting of the truth!
You make it sound as the Kollel guys are getting paid for Not going to the army. Nothing could be further from the truth. Most of the money they get from the Israeli gov. is welfare money. Any Israeli can get this money. And if the Israelis don’t like the Charedim taking welfare, let them exempt the Charedim from going to the army, even if they aren’t in Kollel, so they could go out to work!