While only 56% of ultra-Orthodox men participate in the labor market, the rate of working ultra- Orthodox women stands at 81%. The gap between them and working secular women is only 2%.

"If you enter the first grade at Beit Ya'akov and ask who will go to work when you grow up - they will all raise their finger," says Reuven Castro. "There is a very clear scale of values, and Torah is all above all," says CEO Michal Leval.