Tel-Chai Nation

In this report on Israel HaYom, they discuss how the most insular Haredi clans spent years on end building concrete walls separating themselves from Israeli society in the most awful ways:

The violence in Haredi towns plays badly, but this isn't the real challenge facing the Haredim when it comes to Israeli society. Even when COVID is a thing of the past, the walls the Haredim built between themselves and the rest of society will remain high, and COVID has dug a deep moat around them. Two states for one people. The low point of the violent riots during the third lockdown is a symptom of the real problem. After two decades of attempts to integrate the Haredim into Israeli life, the results are limited. The main trend in mainstream Haredi society is still one of isolationism and enclosure. Even at the price of people's lives, as we have seen over the course of this past year. The conclusion is that Israel cannot allow itself the privilege of allowing Haredi isolationism to continue.

Absolutely not. But if you're wondering why the Haredi clans take such an isolationist, socialist approach to living, and why efforts to integrate them properly are otherwise unsuccessful, this is why:

There is a reason for these failures and why the Haredi are not integrating into Israeli society. Haredi society is defined by and exists because of its isolationism, which serve to maintain its values, but have turned into a value unto themselves. The more Israel tried to bring them into society, the more Haredi spiritual and political leaders take a contrarian approach and fight the state's attempts to include them.

I blame the Satmar for much of this influence, and wouldn't be shocked if they had any influence in the country during the late 1940s, when the modern state was being established after getting the occupying British forces out. But David Ben-Gurion also made a mistake by exempting them from army service, which later led to early problems even he admitted shouldn't have been enabled.

Anyway, this is exactly why Israeli society as a whole can't afford to consider the Haredi way of life an acceptable one. Even if it's nowhere near as awful as Islam, it's still very destructive upon many a mind raised in their enclaves, leading to all sorts of "road to hell paved with good intentions" situations. In fact, it's the right-wing in particular that must prove they're capable of objecting to the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle, because such issues cannot be left for liberals to monopolize. Mainly because the left actually does facilitate the Haredi lifestyle, since it's as socialist as many leftists themselves, and the left-wing parties have gone out of their way to accomodate the Haredis in past decades, if that's what it took to keep their governments standing.

I would therefore strongly advise right-wingers who recognize the problems posed by the ultra-Orthodox lifestyle to do everything they can, in addition, to help those who want to leave it, to do so, and ensure their children won't have difficulty doing the same when stuck in the middle of a custody battle between 2 parents divorcing. Better still, make sure the children aren't indoctrinated in Haredi-run schools to view a parent who goes "off the derech", as they sometimes put it, as some sort of a demon who deserves zero chance to prove they're not. This abuse of the system by the ultra-Orthodox clans cannot be allowed to continue.

As noted in this health article, many Haredis are the ones suffering from high rates of Coronavirus, with Arabs coming second, although there's a slight difference when it comes to how the 2 sectors get vaccinated:

The Health Ministry also reported that while the infection rate among the general public stands at 9.2%, in the ultra-Orthodox sector it's 20%, and in the Arab sector 12.1%.

While 84.9% of the general public is vaccinated, in the Haredi sector it's 66.1%, and in the Arab sector it's 60%.

The vaccination rate in the general public stands at 32%, in the ultra-Orthodox sector it's 27%, and in the Arab sector at 18%.

So although it appears most Haredis are suffering from higher infection rates, they're going for vaccinations at a rate higher than the Arabic sector. Yet the Haredi attendance for this is lower than most of the general public, and that's obviously troubling in its own way, mainly because it suggests not all are listening to the spiritual leaders urging them to do so. And it's also sad how the Arabic sector doesn't seem to be getting vaccinated at a higher rate either.

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