What is the Hasidic relationship to the state of Israel?
After WWII when the state of Israel was established, Jews worldwide were exuberant including most Hasidim. The Satmars, fiercely denounced the state of Israel as run by sinners and against the Jewish teaching to wait for Messiah to redeem them instead of taking matter into their own hands. The Satmars fought a tough battle even among the Hasidic community sympathetic to the Israeli cause, and were even ostracized and ridiculed for that. Eventually, after the Israeli hype subsided, most Hasidic communities followed the Satmar model in terms of bearing no allegiance and making no contributions to the state of Israel, although they never defiantly opposed it.
