Reply To: Zionism, Apikorsos?

That letter from Rav Bloch is odd. The Netziv and the Bais Halevi were certainly of the Yeshiva World and they supported Chovevei Tziyon (before it started being taken over by the secular). Rav Shmuel Mohilever, who was the Rav of Bialystock and a product of Volozhin, was also a founder of Chovevei Tziyon. Rav Yitzchok Yaakov Reines, the Rosh Yeshivah and Rav of Lida and a product of Volozhin, was the founder of Mizrachi.