But seriously, are there no bakers, bricklayers, plumbers, bus drivers or other working people in Israel?
Israelis are not a rich people, by and large. They have the second highest poverty rate in the OECD, behind only Costa Rica.
The main pockets of poverty are Arab and Orthodox communities, with the Orthodox actually doing worse.
The Orthodox in general, represent a ticking time bomb under Israel.
In 1948, Ultra Orthodox Jews (funny guys with hats) made up less than 1% of Israel's population. By the 1970s they were around 4%. Today they are at 20%+, and by the middle of the century their numbers are projected to rise to 40% of the population.
The average Ultra Orthodox woman has 6-7 children. At the same time, the average Ultra Orthodox man does not work. In fact, the Bank of Israel states that over 60% of Ultra Orthodox men "do not work".
What do they do instead of working? They read books all day. Who pays for this? The State of Israel, their hard working wives (who because they are uneducated usually work only the lowest level jobs), and bleeding heart American Jews.
On top of refusing to work, and sitting pretty on welfare - these guys refuse to serve in the military. There are efforts now to force them, but they're quite good at staging mass protests where they throw pieces of pavement at Israeli cops.
So... just technically speaking there are a million people in Israel capable of driving a truck or baking some bread - and which really need the money too. The problem is that they like to pretend they are still living in a 19th century Belarusian village, and feel other people should be grateful to be able to support their Talmudic studies.
If you have a country of 350 million people... then the welfare system can be robust enough to support a few million lazy weirdos. If you have only 9 million people like Israel, that's not a very workable proposition.