If you are Yeshivish or Chassidish do you want to come to a country where leading candidates for office base their entire platform on undermining Charedi life? If they are leading candidates that means they have popular support. That means the country is against you. That doesn't happen anywhere else in the world. And it's been like this for decades. So how can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yisrael Reismann of Torah v'daas say that the future is in Israel? How can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yitzchok Berkowitz of Aish tell Yeshivish people that they have no excuse for not moving to Israel since there are Anglo communities. (It's a stretch to call them that by the way.) How can allegedly Yeshivish rabbis like Yitzchok Breitowitz of Ohr Somayach tell Jews to move to Israel, that they need a good excuse not to move when they majority of the country is literally out to get them. The answer is that they are not really Yeshivish. They have become Zionists. But more than that, they are irresponsible and unthinking Zionists. Rabbi Soloveitchik, who affiliated with the Mizrachi party, told people not to move to Israel, said you should live where you function best as a Jew. Reismann, Berkowitz, and Breitowitz all parade around in black hats and black suits, and all shout about how we have to listen to the gadolim, but they don't listen to the gadolim, not Rav Moshe Feinstein who said there's no obligation in our times to live in Israel and not Rav Joseph Soloveitchik who along with every Yeshivish Rosh Yeshiva and Chassidish Rebbe did not encourage moving to Israel.
In short, don't move to Israel if you are Yeshivish or Chasidish, no matter what naive and hypocritical and irresponsible rabbis tell you. The Israeli Court nullified the draft exemption. That's all you need to know. Israelis don't want you here, and they are not the sort of people who politely tolerate those who they don't want around.
Is naftali bennet's platform to take money from Charedim?
Short answer: yes — cutting state money to the charedi sector is one of the central planks of Bennett's platform. It's arguably the single defining issue of his comeback. But it's not pure confiscation — it's conditional funding: cut the money for those who don't serve in the military and don't teach core subjects, and redirect it to soldiers and reservists.
The "Servicemembers' Law" (announced January 2026)
Bennett's flagship proposal. It hands out big benefits to soldiers and reservists — grants toward a first home, subsidized childcare, utility subsidies for as long as they do reserve duty, fully funded bachelor's degrees, funded master's for combat troops — and explicitly says those who don't serve "won't receive anything." He claims to fund it by reallocating roughly NIS 25 billion (~$7.9 billion) currently going to what he calls "draft dodgers and coalition handouts." He said it would be "the flagship law of the next government" and a condition for any party joining a coalition under him.
Bennett's party (Bennett 2026, later renamed Together after an April 2026 merger with Lapid's Yesh Atid, with Bennett leading) is the main challenger to Netanyahu. He's polling as a top contender. His platform also includes term limits, an Israeli constitution, and a state inquiry into October 7 — but on the charedi question specifically, mandating Haredi conscription and ending blanket exemptions is core.
So: yes, cutting charedi funding is central to his platform — he says it plainly and loudly. Whether you call it "taking money from charedim" or "reallocating subsidies to those who serve" is the whole debate.
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