The Haredi challenge is becoming Israel's national security crisis

(JNS) — Israel has spent decades bracing for the enemies it can see: Iranian centrifuges, Hamas tunnels, Hezbollah rockets. It has built one of the most sophisticated defense establishments on earth to battle them. But the danger that may do the most lasting damage is growing inside the Knesset, the yeshivahs and the birth statistics themselves — and no missile-defense system can stop it.

That threat is Haredi exceptionalism. And Israel’s leaders built it themselves.

Haredim make up less than 15 percent of the Israeli population. Yet their influence is vastly disproportionate to their numbers...