Israeli Public’s Worst Nightmare
Secular public’s demographic nightmare
Long-sleeved shirts instead of bikinis? Synagogues instead of nightclubs? Pessimistic researchers say growth rate within haredi community may lead to end of State of Israel as we know it. ‘If trend continues, we will no longer be part of the Western world,’ one of them warns
“I’m afraid to think of what the day after may look like,” says Dr. Zeev Dgani, the principal at the Tel Aviv high school Herzliya Gymnasium. “One of the first things will probably be segregation between men and women on buses, and then non-kosher food products will be banned from stores, the State will pass laws that will forbid me from eating non-kosher food, my freedom of movement will be restricted – history will be rewritten.