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Joseph, actually there are two Mashiachs: Mashiach ben Yoseph and Mashiach ben David. Rabbi Hillel Rivlin, in “Kol HaTor”, quotes his rebbe the Gra as saying that the job of the first is kibbutz galuyot and building the material side of EY and the job of the latter is to build the spiritual side. Rav Kook believed (“Hesped b’Yerushalayim” printed in “Mamari HaRayah”) that Herzl, or perhaps the Zionist movement in general, was the former and explains why it opposed religion. He has been proven correct by history.