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>David Ben-Gurion: Okay guys you don't have to join the army if you're haredi
>(1948, when Israel only had 400 haredi students in a population of 650,000 Jews)
>2024, number of haredim is around 1,280,000, 16% of Israel and projected to be 25% by 2050
making the state of Israel unviable
Jews didn't expect other Jews to exploit the system