Damoshe, the berditchiver was melamed zchus on people with the din of yisroel. People who are not frum weren’t a thing back then, and you don’t find that he was melamed zchus on reform or maskilim.
Israelis don’t speak Hebrew because they feel close to Hashem. They speak it because that’s how they’re raised and that’s the language around them, just like American jews don’t speak English because we feel a solidarity with king George of England