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Den ultraortodoxa delen av det israeliska samhället växer snabbast och samtidigt får största delen av barnen ingen egentlig utbildning, de kan därmed inte bidra till statens utveckling.

Detta håller på att bli ett oöverkomligt problem.

Why these elections are the last chance to save Israel from its ‘spiral of collapse’

Israel’s entire education system is in crisis. And its fastest-growing community, the ultra-Orthodox, is getting by far the worst education of all. An inadequate education spells a non-competitive workforce, a weakened army, and a country that simply won’t survive

...It (  the outgoing coalition ) has spent its four-year-term championing an ultra-Orthodox leadership that is ever-more determined to exclude its community from the responsibilities of national defense, multifront war notwithstanding, and it is massively funding an ultra-Orthodox non-education system knowing full well that this godless apparatus deliberately denies its students the opportunity to effectively participate in a first-class workforce.

“Our country did not reach this point, nor this government, by chance,” Ben-David said. “We’ve been heading steadily in this direction for decades.”

“When a country starts to collapse economically, the first to leave are the most educated, the most skilled, the people with options — which means there is a greater burden on those who remain. And then those who can, of those who remain, leave — and then you’re in a situation, basically, like Venezuela was, or like Lebanon. Beirut was once called the Paris of the Middle East. These are countries that destroyed themselves. But the difference between them and us is that they can still be around. Nobody’s threatening their very existence. That’s not the case with Israel. If we screw this up, there will be no country for our people or for our children.”

But, Ben-David is adamant, “there is still time to make a difference.”

If it’s not already too late, then October’s election will be the last chance.

Ett delat samhälle oroar i Israel

En artikel som visar hur oroade vissa i Israel är över den nuvarande situationen.

 Israelis are alarmed over the threat of political violence. Can it be averted?

Amid an ugly campaign season, scholars and officials are warning of a toxic political discourse across the spectrum — and fear things could get worse before they get better

...Everyone who has discussed the rifts cleaving Israeli society acknowledges that the point of politics is not for everyone to get along. But they also share Herzog’s fear that Israelis, separated into groups that feel disenfranchised, discriminated against and aggrieved, are now seeing their political rivals not as ideological competitors but as enemies.

Everyone also acknowledges that such divides are not new. When Haredi protesters rioted at Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg’s home, his wife Meira asked through tears, “What is this, Kristallnacht?”

Herzog, as well as Eylon, both referenced the destruction of the Second Temple, a time two millennia ago when internecine fighting led to the fall of a Jewish commonwealth in the land of Israel.

For generations, leaders have asked whether the Jewish people have learned the lessons of that historical period. Now, Eylon isn’t sure Israel has even learned the lesson of one of its own greatest tragedies from a far more recent era: the assassination of Rabin 31 years ago.

Instead, he worries the country has regressed. Once nearly all Israelis rejected political assassination. Now, he fears, that consensus may be gone.