re: #7 Vicious Babushka

This time bomb was created by Ben-Gurion. He legit believed that the new, secular Zionism would replace the old, antiquated Judaism and he didn’t want them in the army anyway, so the entire demographic gets a pass.

The Haredim (of which I am one) have a higher birth rate than the Palestinians. We will see how that works out.

As I recall, the Haredim at the time were also a relatively small minority, so Ben-Gurion probably figured, “Meh, no big deal.”