Israel’s fifty-shekel note carries the face of Shaul Tchernichovsky.
In 1899 he wrote a poem standing before a statue of Apollo, declaring that the Jews had bound the g-d of life and strength with the straps of tefillin — and that he was the first to return and bow before the pagan ideal.
A founding poet of the Hebrew revival openly renounced the Torah in favor of vitality, beauty, and strength.
Zionism is not Judaism.