Ben-Gurion's Historic Mistake – That Founded the Plague Threatening Us Today | Uriel Lynn

Uriel Lynn argues that Torah study cannot be the supreme value in Israel, and that the supreme value is the capacity for self-defense. He criticizes the exemption from military service for Haredim, and accuses Ben-Gurion of a historic mistake that founded the problem. Lynn calls for a complete abolition of the exemption with no exceptions.

Uriel Lynn, in an opinion column in Maariv, attacks the notion that Torah study is the supreme value in Israel, calling it a historic fraud concocted by Haredi politics and leadership. According to him, the supreme value is the state's capacity for self-defense, based on military power, not Torah study. Lynn reviews Jewish history from the Bible to the Holocaust to show that Torah study did not protect the people, only military force did. He attacks the current coalition (Likud, Haredim, and their partners) for wanting to grant constitutional supremacy to Torah learners and exempt them from security service. Lynn also rejects Gadi Eisenkot's proposal to exempt a select minority of yeshiva students, and calls for a complete abolition of all exemptions from conscription. He concludes by calling for a decisive and uncompromising correction of the historic injustice.