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Gedolim who supported the Medina and Zionism
1) Ramban Shir Hashirim 8:12. 2) Radak Tehillim 146:3. 3) Seder Hayom by Rabeinu Moshe ben Machir. 4) Or HaChayim Vayikra 25:25 Bamidbar 24:17. 5) HaGra Kol HaTor 1:3. 6) Rabbi Chaim Palagi Artzos HaChayim 9:9, 10:44. 7) Rabbi Avraham of Trisk Magen Avraham al HaTorah Vaera 4. 8) Rabbi Yisrael Yehoshua Trunk Yeshuos Malco Yoreh Deah 66. 9) Rabbi Eliyahu Gutmacher Shivas Tzion Vol. 2: pg. 40, Nefesh Chaya Orach Chayim 1. 10) Rabbi Yehuda Alkalai Raglei Mevaser pg. 620. 11) Chafetz Chayim Kitzur Toldos HaChafetz Chayim pgs. 43,69,75, Shem Olam Perek 14. 12) Meshech Chochma in a letter to “Keren HaYesod”. 13) Netziv Shivas Tzion Vol. 2: pg. 18. 14) Malbim Shivas Tzion Vol. 2: pg. 3. 15) HaRav Kook. 16) Rabbi Avraham Dov Shapira Igros HaRaayah 3:316-317. 17) Rabbi Aba Yaakov HaKohen Burachov Shivas Tzion pg. 97. 18) Rabbi Ben Tzion Chai Uziel Michmnei Uziel Vol. 2: pg. 321. 19) Rabbi Ovadyah Hadayah in the Intro. to Shut Yaskil Avdi Vol. 6. 20) Rabbi Yitzchak Nisim Yad HaRav Nisim. 21) Rabbi Mordechai Atiyah Machseh VeOz pgs. 16,17,19,20,21,38,41,43,46. 22) Rabbi Amram Aburbyah Nesivei Am Drashos pgs. 70,103,153,220,236,239. 23) Rabbi Moshe Kalfon HaKohen Torah VeChayim pg. 106. 24) Rabbi Chayim Churi Chayei Chayim pg. 240. 25) Rabbi Rachamim Chai Chavaytah HaKohen Minchas Kohen pg. 10, Keser Kehunah pgs. 36,125. 26) Rabbi Refael Kadir Tzavan Intro. to Zerah Yaakov. 27) Rabbi Shlomo Mazuz. 28) Rabbi David Sakli Lech David Vayechi pg. 24. 29) Rabbi Moshe Malkah Nitfei HaMayim pgs. 114,117,121. 30) Rabbi Yitzchak Abichatzeira “Rabbeinu Yitzchak Abichatzeira” pg. 367. 31) Rabbi Yechiya Yitzchak in Ish Yemini. 32) Rabbi Yitzchak Hertzog. 33) Rabbi Tzvi Pesach Frank Intro. to Har Tzvi, HaTzvi Yisrael pgs. 327, 329. 34) Rabbi Isser Zalman Meltzer Kovetz Kerem Tzion, Shaar Reuven pg. 245. 35) Rabbi Reuven Katz Shaar Reuven pgs. 49, 305, 323. 36) Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg Kisvei HaGaon Rabbi Yechiel Yaakov Weinberg Vol. 2: pgs. 307, 330, 361. 37) Rabbi Yaakov Moshe Charlap Maayanei HaYeshuah pg. 307. 38) Rabbi Meshulam Roth Intro. to Kol Mevaser. Kol Mevaser 21:1,3,7.39) Rabbi Yaakov Friedman, Admor of Husyatin Ohalei Yaakov pgs. 56,91,100,239,255,274,342,244. 40) Rabbi Shlomo Chayim Admor of Sadigura Devarim BeItam pgs. 32,54, 57,202. 41) Admor of Modzhits Tiferes Yisrael Otzr HaTorah VeHaNeginah pg. 19. 42) Rabbi Reuven Margolius Zakuf HaKomah pg. 118. 43) Rabbi Eliezer Waldenburg Baal haTzitz Eliezer 44) Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv 45) Rabbi Avraham Shapiro 46) HaChidah 47) Rabbi
Yosef Kahaneman of Ponevezh 48) Rabbi David HaKohen 49) Rabbi Eliyahu Pardes 50) Rabbi Isser Yehuda Unterman 51) Rabbi Soloveitchik 52) Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach 53) Rabbi Chaim Tzimmerman 54) Rabbi Yitzchak Shulzinger 55) Rabbi Yitzchak Schiber 56) Rabbi Menachem Mendel Kasher 57) Rabbi Shaul Israeli 58) Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu 59) Rabbi Ovadyah Yosef 60) Rabbi Shlomo Goren 61) Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook 62) Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zavin
So, it is not all Gedolim who didn’t support the Medina.
—-Dovid