I'm going on a limb here and saying that we have someone else to thank.
When the State of Israel was first created, Ben Gurion had no wish to support Torah learning. Yet, he wanted a few Torah scholars to remain for cultural and historical reasons.
In order to force young Jewish men into the army, he made the draft. When the Chareidim objected, he allowed the student waiver for learning boys, with the stipulation that they may not go to work unless they serve in the army.
His hope was that they would eventually join the army.
Instead, he got thousand upon thousands of young men who *unable* to go to work, had to stay and sit and learn.
Thus he created the biggest revolution in Jewish scholarship that is unmatched since the Babylonian Talmud.
Thank you David Ben Gurion.
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The difference between the "scholars" of Ben-Gurion's revolution and the Jewish scholars of the Babylonian Talmud is that the latter, by and large, actually worked.
True, but its also ben-Gurion's fault for not letting them work.
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