Saving Charedim, Saving Israel

Ten years ago, the Israeli edition of Mishpacha magazine ran a shocking feature story about poverty and financial collapse in the Israeli charedi community. The only thing still keeping the community going since then is the enormous funding and welfare payments and tax exemptions from the government, to the tune of tens of billions of dollars annually. Obviously this can’t last forever. Even if Likud manages to stay in power forever via consenting to charedi demands, eventually the money will ru...