Abba > The government forces them to declare that learning is their occupation.
I do understand the social dynamics here. Same as welfare in US “forces” some groups to not work for several generations already.
But an honest assessment is that Israeli government supports people whose occupation is Torah and earlier roshei yeshiva were imploring their students to learn at full capacity to keep that declaration honest (I brought a direct quote from Mir RY before). So, nobody is forced by the government to lie and pretend to be learners when they”d rater work (or do secretly work). I honestly don’t understand how such bizayon can come up to a mind of someone who earnestly learned Torah for a number of years.
A related mussar: one of my teachers saw a Philly chochom learning with a talmid, and a talmid brought tea to drink. They finished the blatt, and the talmid noticed that the chochom did not finish tea. Aware that you can only drink in beis midrash when you learn, the talmid suggested learning another blatt. To which the chochom retorted: I drink to learn, but I don’t learn to drink.