First of all, most decent positions here require previous army service, so we've come full circle
On top of that, in terms of strictly being prepared to make a living, I'd bet a significant percentage of your and my education is worth much less now due to the rapid advance of technology. Critical thingking and innovation is the name of the game in many industries. Try some Talmud study to see how that devlops those skills.
Most decent positions no longer require army service, that ship sailed a long time ago.
I can only speak for my education and say that it continues to be of tremendous relevance.
The talmud study critical thinking Trope doesn't hold up in the real world, unfortunately.
So Israeli view is less accommodating of jewish tradition than the American view?
isn't that what we've been saying for 3 pages now?
Not at all. Israeli haredim tend to be much more zealous (and Israeli) then their American brethren. The situation is extremely different. The US is a country at peace without a draft that treads lightly around anything that could possibly be a 1st amendment issue. The entire Jewish population of the US is around 2.4%, not even. The entire orthodox population of the US (around 10% of the Jewish population per Pew) is a rounding error, .24%.
In Israel, there is a draft, the Haredi population makes up 16% of the Jewish population (13.3% of the total population), and are largely supported indirectly by everyone else.
Israel in general is a fairly conservative, overly Jewish state and depending on who you ask, the majority are favorable towards Jewish tradition. The lack of political will is pretty much how we ended up here today.