Israel is not run by religious leaders, Rig. It's run by political zealots who serve a political cause called "Zionism"...a cause which primarily has to do with establishing a Jewish political state in the lands that the Jews lived in about 2,000 years ago before the Romans scattered them across the ancient world. Jewishness is not a religion. It's a cultural designation. Many Jews are self-proclaimed atheists. Also...some of the most orthodox religious Jews are openly opposed to the political cause of Zionism (although you seldom hear about their views in the press).