Joseph: That story about the Chazon Ish is apocryphal, like most of that book. The author has a certain agenda and so everything in there has to be interpreted in that light, like the story about him saying tachanun by the bris on 5 iyar. If the chazon ish had ever said anything good about zionists it would never have made it into the book, so we obviously can’t trust it. Moreover, that doesn’t even sound like him, rather like the vayoel moshe. Finally, we were talking about zionism as a whole, and that quote is about celebrating yom ha’atzmaut.
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