Perhaps yom hoatsmaut should be the day that we celebrate that despite 65 years of a zionist state,we are still able to keep Torah
The Chazon Ish thought that we would have to keep yiddishkeit in the cellars like they did in Russia (and anyone who thinks that he was naiive seriously needs their head examining).
One of the early zionists admitted privately to a colleage who later became a baal teshuva that were it not for world opinion they would have made concentration camps for the frum yidden.How they must be turning in their graves now,with so much Torah here!