It is a well-known Torah truism that a third destruction, following those of the First and Second Holy Temples, will never occur. There will be no Exile following the beginning of the Redemption that we have been experiencing these recent decades and more.
What reason do we have to celebrate on Israeli Independence Day and what what are religious people happy about?
We should celebrate the progress we have made, and pray for what needs completion.
It is not the state that is sick but the nation. Were it not for the establishment of the state who knows what would have happened to the Jewish people from a spiritual point of view.