HaKatan, Rav Tzvi Yehuda said that “religious” and “Zionists” are not separate terms. We are Zionists because we arwe religious and part of being religious is being a Zionist.
Health, actually it meas “a person does not move a finger”. “Nokef” is related to “lehakif”, which means “to circumvent” in the sense of “to circumvent the world” – to travel around it. In any case, it is clear that teh Medina is a beracha. The vast majority of the gedolim said so. The fact that there are things which need to be changed is the fault of the hundreds of thousands of frum Jews who did not heed Rav Kook and the Imrei Emet and come at the beginning of the Mandate when the gates were wide open. They continue not to come or, in many cases, come but do not become citizens and vote.