Israel Nobel Prize Winner: ‘I’m Deathly Scared Of Charedim, They’re Against Education And Work’

 

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 During an interview at a cultural event on Shabbat in Beersheva, Professor Dan Shachtman, An Israeli nobel laureate in chemistry, blasted the chareidi public in Israel, using harsh language to describe them.

“They are sitting on the udders and milking the State of Israel,” Prof. Shachtman said. “I am deathly scared of the chareidim. Israel due to its demography is going in a negative direction.”

Speaking to journalist Lior Kenan, Shachtman said that he is not worried about Iran as he believes the Ayatollahs’ reign will end and the country will become a thriving democracy. However Israel has “one faction which is growing swiftly, “blessed with children thank G-d” [the professor stressed this scornfully] and continuously increasing. These are people who are against education, against enlightenment, against work.”

When asked by the interviewer whether he wasn’t making a sweeping generalization, Shachtman insisted that he was not generalizing.

He added that “we as a democracy will continue to deteriorate. In future it will be impossible to establish a coalition without the chareidim. Now it is still possible to rectify, I hope that the politicians sitting in Jerusalem will be able to overcome this problem.”

Responses to Shachtman stressed his “autoantisemitism”  as well as his distortion of the facts: Chareidi woman are almost all employed and over 50% of chareidi men work. Journalist Yishai Cohen simply brought a picture from Shachtman’s abortive attempt to stand for Israeli president (he received just one vote) when he visited chareidi rabbis to canvass support. Cohen wrote that “then he didn’t seem so scared of chareidim.”