There are very few zionist rebbes. If a rebbe was a zionist, he would demand the right to serve in the IDF. If fact virtually no one from a “rebbe” family, of any group, serves in the IDF. Some, such as the Lubavitcher (back when there was a Lubavitcher Rebbe, the last one died a generation ago), actively encouraged Jewish communities to continue in golus, sending people to build up communities inthe weirdest of places, thereby offering a credible alternative to zionism.
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