Just being religious doesn’t require you to join that crowd with its weird main rabbinate and preferential treatment in laws and state funding.

So it’s basically lots of uneducated idle fundamentalist morons. Their worldview is too simple for comic books, and at the same time their level of life is kinda normal.

I don’t think such people make useful soldiers, but being that stupid you usually support whatever you hear from your leaders.

A friend of mine very easily repeats stupid shit of that kind and has recently passed an exam to become a rabbi. Still to “maybe Israel shouldn’t have invaded Lebanon twice” in a conversation about Hezbollah he answered “ok, maybe they shouldn’t, I agree”. That’s a fucking qualitative difference. If he manages to repatriate and meet those people, I suspect he’ll experience “Idiocracy” firsthand.

That said, secular (but nationalist) Israelis have quite a few slurs for them and in general don’t like them. So use as a cannon fodder, say, in case of attacking Lebanon, - is kinda possible.