Light unto the nations: Chabad’s relationship with Zionism
When once asked whether he was a Zionist, the Rebbe reportedly answered, "If Israel is a state of Jews, then I am not a Zionist, but if it is a Jewish state, then I am a Zionist."
CHABAD EMISSARIES engage with IDF soldiers, offering to lay tefillin, at a staging area near the border with Gaza during Operation Protective Edge in July 2014.(photo credit: MENDY HECHTMAN/FLASH90)ByALEX WINSTON
