JERUSALEM, ISRAEL – The Jews that founded the modern State of Israel were overwhelmingly secular. Most Jews who founded the country, in fact, were socialists, atheists and agnostics. They had abandoned faith in the God of the Hebrew Scriptures in Western Europe, or had lived in the communist bloc countries of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and were prevented from believing in the God of Israel and having access to the Bible. Most religious Jews in Europe believed it was forbidden for sinful men and women to rebuild the State of Israel. They believed only the Messiah could do...