The secularists will respond that they are carrying the burden on the “democracy” side of the Jewish and democratic” definition because if left to the chareidim, Israel would become a theocracy similar to Iran. I’m also not convinced that the descriptor of “burden” appropriately describes the definition. One could also say efforts at mass immigration would solve the “burden,” since about half of the world’s Jewish population live in the diaspora. Or for that matter, a program to find and recruit the many many Jews by halacha who are descendants of conversos. Creating and running these types of programs would take at least as much effort as the burden of having families too large to support by your own means.
