Why exactly is Rabbi Dov Landa shlit”a deciding which age groups get to learn Torah, what and where? Why not a group of people: Beis Din? (And how come his “ruling” ignores geography?)
Is Rabbi Landa a recognized expert on missiles and war? Is he at least a famously able and patient listener and a quick study of new, complex, fuzzy information? A seasoned posek, very experienced at matching up risk numbers and practical halacha, very good at being neither too “stringent” nor too “lenient”?
Or is he, IN FACT, none of the above? And the ostensible figures and estimates were surely not presented by the best and brightest, either.
And all this assumes all the various schools and parents, and students can’t decide for themselves after whatever processes they usually follow.
Not only is he not the right person to decide for others, he is a personally fearful person who shouldn’t even be listening to himself, a consistent neo-Erastian (though not National-Religious proto-fascist/Statoloter) who can’t even conceive of doubting the authorities’ edicts or presentations of facts. We have already written on Rabbi Landa’s irrational, neurotic compulsion to defer to State power, in a violent and abusive manner, including for statist Dead-Letter suggestions, even when these violate his own religious commitments and decision-making.