The simple fact is that the religious Jewish populations, including the National Religious, have more kids than everyone else- including the Arabs. According to a recent study, "the average number of births for each ultra-Orthodox woman is seven, and the average number for Arab Muslim women is 3.9." http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=4956&print=1 Don't worry about the Arabs and their demographics. The religious Jews will ensure a Jewish future in the Jewish homeland, AND we National Religious Jews will continue to contribute far more than our numbers to the elite units and others in the IDF.

This is a looming disaster worse than the Iranian A-bomb or the so called Palestinian "demographic time bomb." If within Israel half the schools are Arab and Haredi, which do NOT use a standard national curriculum, then we're done for. The country will become backward much like our neighbors- Medieval, superstitious, intolerant, misogynist, anti-democratic etc. Its time for the State to reclaim education and the national narrative from these fringe groups- Abolish special schools for Arabs and Haredim, let them study modern subject in modern Hebrew. There is no reason why the majority should pay for minority schools to teach hatred of the State and the "other!"

Looks like it.

If it were left up to secular Jews, this country would have had an Arab majority a long time ago. Only religious Jews are keeping this country Jewish...in more ways than one.

The Haredi schools are in much worse shape than the schools with an Arab-Israeli population. The ultra-orthodox schools do not even teach basic math and science, much less the advanced knowledge necessary for graduates to work in a competitive global world. We are going to end up with an utterly uneducated majority population. Worse, we will end with a "minority secular elite" who won't revel in that elite status as they will be tasked with keeping this country and the uneducated and thus incompetent masses afloat. We will end up like Egypt, with its comparatively wealthy secular elite, ignorant and hungry masses, and a country unable to be competitive economically. Stop government funding of schools that do not conform to standards in teaching curriculum. So long as they receive the funding to do whatever they want, they won't change their curriculum.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132994

anything.

as there is no violence there...but woe is me, on the holiest day of all, just watch the wonderful lessons in violence the hooigans give.

this reflects the bankruptcy of the secular system. Would they begin to teach Jewish values and observance in addition to the core subjects they would succeed. Who wants to send their child to become a drug addicted drop out. for parents making a choice the charedei system seems to do the best job of raisng a succesful moral capable child. the srass roots know better than the left wing idealouges whose children will be more succesful. And they know better than the left wing papers if children are ill equiped to deal with a modern society.

they do not take any money from the secular government

One big problem is that the percentage of young people and children is much higher among Arabs than Jews. That will cause problems in the next generation. I agree with one of the talkbackers here that it is only the religious Jews who are keeping the country Jewish.

to one of the talkbackers... do not expect the haredi population to support israel and zionism. the increase in haredi and arab population is a sign signaling the end of israel... the result?? halakha or shariaa which ever prevails first. that's what's coming with these increases in number but there's not that much difference between them (halakha and shariaa) so it doesn't matter which one rules. i feel haredi and arabs would compliment each other :)