@yankel –
HaKatan, in his blindness and hatred, is unwilling to do the research which would reveal Rav Kook to be as hardline Charedi as they got despite being the Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi and part of the Rabbanut. Instead, he will argue – as he has in the past -that Rav Kook was powerful and they used those titles because of his position and being intimidated into doing so, not because he actually deserved them.
Which is an absolutely absurd assertion to make and I do not understand HaKatan’s intransigence and unwillingness to do even the most basic research into Rav Kook’s life.
He also will not address the fact that with the exception of the Satmarer, most of these “fights” between the RZ/MO Tzibbur and the Charedi Tzibbur were largely ideological, with neither party having any true animosity/visceral hatred toward the other.