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I read that some Russians had problems adjusting to Israeli life. One reason being that many of them had only a tenuous connection to a Jewish heritage. Some had no Jewish background at all. A few disaffected young men even became neo-Nazis. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...nd-396392.html
This is what can happen when Israel mistreats patrilineal Jews, unfortunately.
Israel doesn't allow civil marriage and no Israeli Jewish movement actually accepts patrilineal Jews as they are--instead forcing them to convert if they actually want to be accepted.
In turn, this makes me wonder--do you think that Israel's rapidly growing population will eventually compel it to build much more and much larger settlements in the West Bank?
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Originally Posted by Pruzhany
No. The high majority of Jews living in the WB are the Orthodox Jews which make up ~10% of the population. They have large amounts of children and their numbers skew the statistics. The other ~90% of Jews want to live in proximity to Tel Aviv or in proximity to a ocean community.
I'm with Pruzhany on this one. Modern Orthodoxy, not the ultra-religious Herudim are the future of Israel and perhaps Western Jewry. Many if not most of the Herudim's children don't want to be stuck in 17th Century Poland, either for dress or beliefs. They welcome the modern world while wanting to keep their heritage.
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