Bayit Yehudi leader Minister of the Economy Naftali Bennett feels that bringing chareidim into the workplace is even more important than drafting them into the IDF. Bennett appeared as a guest for a session of the Shaked Committee, the share the burden committee headed by MK Ayelet Shaked, of Bennett’s party.
Bennett told committee members that for him, the paramount mission is to free avreichim from kollel and permit them to enter the workplace. He explains that in the past the avreichim were compelled to remain in kollel or face the draft but today, the reality has changed and they can leave and get jobs, which is his goal.
Bennett admits a major challenge for his party and ministry is addressing 28,000 avreichim who will be excused from military service – to devise a plan to incorporate them into the nation’s workforce. Bennett feels that in addition to the obvious, bringing the chareidim into the workforce is a critical element towards that populations’ integration into Israeli society. His ministry is allocating 500 million NIS towards bringing chareidim into the national workforce.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Does that mean that we won’t see the 2-3 groups of 4-at-a-time schnorrers coming into shuls interrupting the davening every morning?
Being that Bennett is a strong ally with Lapid who’s adamant about drafting charedim, I wouldn’t trust him. Might very well be a trick to see who’s serious about Kolel and who just learns there to get out of army.
The reason many Chareidim don’t work is because the law compels them to join the IDF before they can take a job. And the law prohibits them from working (until age 27) unless they have served in the IDF.
Therefore, since Chareidim are religiously opposed to joining the IDF, they are compelled to be unable to take a legal job until age 27. They will NOT submit to the draft even if that means they cannot work.
The solution is to allow Chareidim to work before age 27 even without having been drafted and having served in the Israeli Army. By doing so, you will see many more Chareidim working.
Just like the goyim wanted to free us from ignorance, and those Jews who didn’t get the message got toasted.
If someone in kollel wants to work outside of the yeshiva-world, the only obstacles are that they have to do army service, and that once they leave the yeshiva world they are in one hack of a hostile work environment (to use an American legal expression that isn’t part of the Israeli legal system). Bennett could propose abolishing conscription (at least for anyone who has spent several years learning full time, perhaps for everyone), and propose serious anti-discrimination laws to protect hareidi workers.
But his agenda isn’t to give options and improved economic conditions to frum Jews, and more than the goal of the inquisition wasn’t to “help” us.
Has anybody ever seen apukores and a LittleThought together at the same time? Their styles of writing are suspiciously the same.
The army doesn’t have the capacity to handle all the chareidim. This is an easy way out of the draft and allowing kollel yungerleit to go work.
Sometimes, I read bloggers commentary and it sounds like ” Yeshiva University News”. Certain commentators add no value and like to throw insults, or pick fights.
Instead of hurling immature comments, why can’t commentators write intelligent comments.
Whatever your opinion is, write it with facts, not outlandish tabloid insults. I ask Ziongate, and Yanky 55 to argue intelligently.
It’s hard to take opinions seriously one based on someone’s bad personal experience, or what’s in their heart. This is an adult website, and readers such as myself deserve intelligent discussions, and logical arguements.
Here is an example of an arguement that adds value to the blogs:
It’s difficult to justify the current government wanting to induct haredim men into the army, at a time when IDF Chief Benny Gantz has recently employed 150 staff to cut 20 Billion sheckels from the current IDF budget.
Please raise your writing standards! Big Chessed!
I applaud him for trying to help the chareidim join the work fore, I wish him allot of hatlacha
#7, it is not easy to explain to frei Yidden why they have to serve and a l l the Chareidim don’t.
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Point well taken.
By the same token I hope you also disapprove of “intelligent” pieces of information posted by some that mingle “intelligence” with words and phrases like— amalekim, reshoyim, chardak,goy ,going to gehennam,interspiced with blatant out-of-context distortions . Whats’ good for the goose…..etc. Have a great day.
ZionGate ,
I agree. Truth is probably in the middle since news is made to sell advertising.
Take news with a grain of salt. It’s purpose is to get everyone riled up.
Mission accomplished.
It bleeds , it leads!!!
#7- Hey, thanks for the shoutout!
And, btw, you want intelligent conversation? Not possible with people like akuperma around. When he says “Just like the goyim wanted to free us from ignorance, and those Jews who didn’t get the message got toasted”, he is referring once again to those who perished in the Holocaust. He has stated that tragedies like that were “mere annoyances”.
When people post such outrageous, mind boggling lunacy, it is impossible to argue facts.
“The solution is to allow Chareidim to work before age 27 even without having been drafted and having served in the Israeli Army. By doing so, you will see many more Chareidim working.”
That in fact is part of the Bennett/Lapid plan. Will the Charedi leaders oppose that?
#14 that is NOT the Bennet/Lapid plan. They want to forcibly draft us, not allow us to go to work without being drafted.