Secular Café: Backlash against the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel

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Backlash against the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel Apr 26th 2013, 01:12 Culture war in Israel targets ultra-Orthodox Jews - Yahoo! News Quote: Newly minted Finance Minister Yair Lapid, hugely popular for opposing the long-standing preferential treatment enjoyed by the religious minority, is moving swiftly to slash state handouts to large families, compel lifelong seminary students to work and join the army, and remove funding for schools that don't teach math, science and English. ... For most of the last three decades, the country's small ultra-Orthodox minority sat in governing coalitions, securing vast budgets for religious schools and automatic exemptions from mandatory military service for tens of thousands of young men in full-time religious studies. About time. Let's see how well he does. Their defenders of these "gentlemen" have claimed that they are defending Israel in their own way, almost as if they are a brigade of mages in a sword-and-sorcery army.

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