This chapter focuses on the urgent need for changing the rules that govern the relations between the state and the Haredim, Eng_C.indd 3_ירוביצה בחרמב םידרח 31/07/2024 11:34:28 iv Justifying the Required Reforms to Haredi Society and deals with the arguments raised by the Haredim which purport to show that such changes are unjust. [...] Thus, I think that the best interpretation of the Haredi objection to the above reforms is that it is based on the assumed violation of the rights of the Haredim—specifically, the right to religious freedom and the right to culture. [...] Eng_C.indd 14_ירוביצה בחרמב םידרח 31/07/2024 11:34:29 Justifying the Required Reforms to Haredi Society xv We mentioned at the outset the Haredi claim that what really motivates the calls for reforms to the Haredi way of life and to the state support for Haredi society is deep hostility toward the Haredim. [...] The Haredi inconsistency is manifested in the fact that when it comes to their contribution to defense and healthcare, they depend on the somewhat mysterious causal contribution of Torah study, but when they themselves need these goods—defense, medical care, and the like—they turn to the normal modes of scientific causality and employ the standard means of the real world to ensure their health and. [...] If significant and consistent steps are not taken to promote major changes in Haredi society, Israel will face a severe socioeconomic crisis, a decline in the status of its democratic institutions, and mounting injustice due to the spread of anti-democratic and anti-liberal ideas and the growing unfairness in the distribution of resources and burdens between the Haredim and the rest of the populat.
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