To tell you the truth? I can see the possibility wherein the Haredim close in on themselves even more than today. Yes, sponging off the taxpayers and all that. But I prefer to see them as a strategic reserve. They are becoming Zionists in their own way and at their own pace. How can they not? It's the same way I feel about American Jewry: they are coming home to Israel, at least most of them, and there is no need to brow-beat them about it. What is the basis for my confidence that the Haredim will abandon their insularity? The fact that they have eyes in their heads. Eyes to see that it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate Israeli reality from their core belief system, which holds as basic tenets the ingathering of the Jews and the redemption of the Jewish people in the land of Israel, and a return of the people of Israel to their Creator. I do not believe that any Jew can avoid the attraction of being a part of this process. Lacking a direct voice from the heavens today, the interpretive voice holds the stage. True, they seem to interpret their present political power as the answer to their prayer to uphold their insularity, but I see it is a swan song.