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Talmidim of the Vilna Gaon and the Baal Shem Tov have been moving to Eretz Yisroel since the early 1700’s. The number of Chareidim moving to EY has been increasing since that time. Long before and no thanks to the late-coming Zionists, who only started immigrating much much later than the Chareidim.
Yes, the British after ousting the Ottomons, placed quotas limiting immigration. But the Zionists were responsible for that British response due to their provoking the Arabs with their constant angling to take over political control of Palestine. So no thanks to the zionists for eliminating the very British quotas they were effectively responsible for happening in the first place. And, btw, because the Zionists instigated the British to impose those quotas, more Jews died in the holocaust. That is what you can thank the Zionists for.
As far as current government funding of Yeshivas are concerned, that is a fair kasha. And, indeed, many Yeshivas including Brisk and many Chasidisha yeshivas refuse to take a penny in government funds, even though they are legally entitled to that money. And the ones that do take, their students families pay more in taxes than they receive in student subsidies and tuition payments from the government. And as far as utilities and protection and street paving, etc, the Chareidim lived without it in EY prior to the Zionists and never asked for it.