While Israel worries about what to do about its growing population of the ultra orthodox, who harp back to an earlier era in Jewish history, using religious practise as an excuse not to work for the state, or anybody else.
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| Herod The Great |
Ironically, all the latest archaeological evidence is that long before the advent of 'socialism',
and the welfare benefits that allow the ultra orthodox men to not work,
ancient Judaism was place where hard work was actually the norm for all but the
elite.
