derszoger, please, please learn some history. Seek out evidence from primary sources, immigration documents and statistics. You will find out that much of the immigration in the late 19th century was secular zionist, but it was relatively small. Many chareidi Jews, Yerushalmim, in fact thousands, including my great grandparents actually left at the onset of severe Turkish persecution during WW1, and lots of them didn’t come back, going instead to the US. Much of the immigration up until the British firmly closed the door in the 30’s was encouraged, facilitated, and arranged by the Jewish Agency, which was the forerunner of the government. Do you think the medinah started out of thin air? Chaim Weizmann was working for Jewish immigration forty years before the creation of the medinah of which he was the first president.
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