Hello Eyal Berkowitz. Nice (or not so nice) to meet you.
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I have no idea who you are, but you, I understand, know me and my kind well.
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Anyway, I'll tell you that my name is Ravi Kosover, I'm a Haredi woman, 61 years old. I've been working continuously since I was 19, and I've been paying taxes ever since. My parents worked and paid taxes their entire lives. My maternal grandfather was one of the founders of the country, one of the first settlers of Petah Tikva, and he paid taxes his entire life.
My father's parents would have been happy to pay taxes if they had immigrated to Israel, but they were sent from their country of Belgium to Auschwitz, and paid a huge tax for being Jews. And my father, the little boy, immigrated to Israel after the war, and to our joy, he was able to study at the Lomza Yeshiva and the Mir Yeshiva (maybe you'll drop by there to meet the hundreds and thousands of parasites, cut off from the people, that you spoke of).
My father was honored to continue the legacy of the Jewish people and pass it on to us.
Our highest value is the Torah - its study and observance. And may we be blessed, as you said, to be: reading the Torah as much as possible...
It's hard for people like you, in this hedonistic generation, to understand what Torah study is. How much work it requires, how much effort and diligence, how much connection to our people and values there is in their study, how much they are not disconnected from the people - how much they are the people, the eternal people.
When my father stopped studying, he worked in various jobs: at a bank and other jobs, and of course he paid taxes in all of them. My entire family, on my side and on my husband's side, the women and men who don't get to continue being in the Torah Corps - which is so productive for us as a people, pay taxes (and some of them also served in the army, my father was an officer in the IDF).
I work in a senior position at a charity organization, and I get to help the people of our country, and not only. I am happy to have the privilege of helping people like you in my work, and in my private time, regardless of race, religion, or gender.
My partners and I are as connected as possible to the people and their hardships, their illnesses and pains, their struggles and difficulties, and we do everything we can to help and assist.
I wish people like this would actually run the country...
Don't worry, this public you've been hurling abuse at is not vindictive. They will help you when you need it.
