A salient point here is that todays secular Israelis are not the “spiritual heirs” to the original secular zionists. Polls show that there is little in the way of the original zionistic attitude in todays Israeli society as a way of life. As for their antagonism towards a torah way of life, is it any different than many members of the reform movement here in the US? They grew up this way and quite frankly know as much of a torah way of life as lihavdil elef havdalos buddhism, perhaps even less. There are many, many secular israelis, who through exposure to a torah way of life, while not necessarily running to embrace torah and mitzvos (yet) are not antagonistic towards those who are shomrei torah umitzvos. Are there those who would do anything negative to a torah jew, certainly, are they members of the government, certainly is such antagonism unique to Israelis, definitely not. Read some of the statements by those against the hamptons eruv for example to see this hatred and antagonism is not unique to secular israelis. It is common among those who are “secular”.
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