A beautiful national shabbat, with tourists invited to traditional Israeli homes, may turn out to be both Israel's biggest tourist attraction, and that which will raise the level of Israel's tourists. Sick souls won't enjoy a holy land. Folks of the flesh are better off in Eilat. We ended Leviticus with the tithe of animals, every 10th one holy, to be eaten only in Jerusalem. The sheep were counted as they ran thru a narrow gate toward their bleating mothers, exhibiting an uncanny sense of returning to their source, their womb.
Retirement is often the biggest killer.
Rambam warns that all Torah is significant, be it lists or theophanies. For mystics, the driest can be the juiciest parts. They and their animals replace the firstborn and their animals, guarding the nation's spirit, not its body. Perhaps the few hundred greatest scholars should be exempt, tho some familiarity and identification with Tzahal would be good for them too. Many haredi yeshiva students don't learn and pray all day, but wander about aimlessly, eating and smoking, until someone finds them a shidduch and supports them for life.