Channel 10 Series: Haredi society dismantling. And where is the data?

Storm: Is the number of dropouts higher than the number of ba'alei tshuva? According to Channel 10 reporter Avishai Ben Haim, a new series that purports to describe the "disintegration" of Haredi society.

Tonight the first episode of the series was aired, featuring a collection of interviews with people who have left religion, including the son of MK Moses.

Ben Haim tried to reach a conclusion with interviewees that Haredi society is falling apart and the greatest crisis they say, that she herself does not know about it.

Dropout or flight? The argument was based apart from a collection of some isolated cases who testified that the reason for their departure is not ideological, sometimes lascivious, on data from the CBS survey, which was not presented in its entirety.

According to the allegations in the article, the survey asked 157 thousand people, what was their level of religiosity in the past, and 12 thousand of them said that at the age of 15 they lived as haredim, and then not.

On that basis, the newspaper report claimed that one in ten haredim is leaving religion, and the viable conclusion of Ben Haim, which did not rely on the data, is that the number of dropouts is now higher than the number of ba'alei tshuva.

He also argues that since the deaths of Harav Elyashiv and Harav Ovadia, Haredi society has no one 'Maran'. In response to the broadcast piece, leading radio broadcaster Avi Mimran, in the central edition of Radio Kol Hai, attacked the conclusions of the article and presented a monologue comment to the contention of Ben Haim's series.

"On the way to being the majority here in the Jewish state," says Mimran, "the road widens, from one path that was 70 years ago, we are galloping on six and seven paths, together with the expansion of the road, the margins too are expanding, and there is room for everyone, anyone who has difficulties in the fast travel of the left lane , signals right, asks his Maran, and passes through to the right lane, that of workers, of academics, to the margins, where there are those that stop on the side, an emergency stop. There they fix their vehicles in order to go back on the fast track, gallop together with flock after the locomotive at the head of the path they choose.

"This is the right way to look at the Haredi public: seven paths, and possibly seven locomotives too, but everyone gallops and races forward. The target? Yes, it is no longer a shame to say it. The target is the afterlife, but not only. Even to be the majority here."

Listen to the full monologue:

'בחדרי' גם ברשתות החברתיות - הצטרפו!