That student is not as reliable as rav yisroel chaim Kaplan, Mashgiach of beis medrash elyon.
What exactly did rabbi reisman report? I spent over a decade in torah vodaas and didn’t hear a word about him saying halel, or that nisim happened, or anything else. As it happens to be, i wasn’t the most anti zionist person there. Rav belsky spoke often against zionism and was extremely close to rav yaakov.