ben levi= I checked my postings and I never wrote that “the Israeli governemt is responsible for the Torah learning in Israel today”- I did write that the fact that we have sovereignty over Eretz Yisroel assured us that the yeshivos and the kollelim continued to exist peacefully and are funded by the government.None of this would be possible under Arab rule (G-d forbid) or even British rule. Not one country in the world funds kollelim, as far as I know. And those gedolim that you quote “fought with all their might” could only do it under Jewish rule and it would certainly look different under alien rule.
It is true that the early Zionists were very secular and did not envision a religious Jewish people- so what? Does that mean that we throw the baby out with the bathwater? NO! We work and work ,we try to persuade and convince, we continue accepting the responsibility of living and defending Eretz Yisroel. Can you deny that Israel today is a vastly different country that it was fifty years ago? and it is all “letoivah” ! More religious Jews, more yeshivos, more kolellim, the continued building of our holy homeland- In Judea and Samaria and Jerushalaim… the protection of our mekomos hakedoshim…(BTW- another example of what would happen under arab rule was the destruction of kever josef when we left Shechem…)
Life is never perfect-anyone over 18 knows this. We can only improve with work and patience….not by leaving the field of batlle…