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For 16 years now, David Hager has managed to avoid giving an interview. The businessman and philanthropist, who is considered to be one of the most significant forces urging the recruitment of ultra-Orthodox Jews or Haredim into the IDF, does his utmost to limit exposure to a minimum. "I prefer to work underneath the radar, quietly, for, as it says in the Talmud, 'A blessing is found only in an object that is hidden from the eye', but on occasions, there is no choice," he explains in a conversation from his home on the 22nd floor of the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem.

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He simply prefers to engage in his activities behind the scenes. He now says that he felt a duty to be interviewed in order to counter the threat that is knocking on our door: "I feel that we are on the eve of the destruction of the Third Temple. What I see is a profound schism within the Jewish people and nobody is listening to the other side, even though there are rights and wrongs on both sides. I too have criticism of the Haredim but at the same time, I also see the amazing things taking place within that sector of Israeli society.

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Hager currently splits his time between Los Angeles and Jerusalem, where he spends about four months a year dedicated to philanthropic activity for the good of the general public. "Though my house in LA is five times bigger, I actually feel much more at home here." he says while we look out over the Old City, "Giving to the community now takes up more than 50% of my time (alongside business and family), and I am happy to say that my partners too are headed in the same direction. One of them, Adam Milstein, is one of the key figures in charge of the war on BDS and antisemitism."

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"Just take a look at Yonatan Hirsch, an ultra-Orthodox Jew who was recently verbally harassed by a woman on a bus merely because of the kippah he was wearing and his peyot (side curls). Hirsch served in the army because of me. I had Shabbat dinner with his family, an unforgettable experience to which I bring senior IDF officers, and his mother told me that she has an extremely talented son who wants to join up, but she is concerned that it will cause them tremendous problems and that he won't be able to find a shidduch (a marital match). I asked her if she thought that he might become less religious because of the army and she said no. I then said to her 'Let the Almighty be the one to decide.' Hirsch is currently a reserve captain in the IDF and an attorney at the State Attorney's Office. One day he will be the State Attorney. And we have dozens of stories just like that of Yonatan."