Israel Returning Home?

My friend Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller threw out a little gem last night at the Federation building where he spoke about Israel's challenges.
To summarize in one pithy phrase: Israel needs to return home to its Jewish identity.
The creation of the state of Israel, for it to be successful, required a type of "secular earthquake", a wrenching away from a 1,900-year-old habit that defined Judaism through "the book". Going from studying and following a book to creating and building a land-- from the work of the mind to the work of the hands-- was a genuine threat to the traditional Jewish identity, but it was necessary. But here's the catch: once the birth pangs are over and the baby grows up, it needs to return to its spiritual roots that gives its life meaning, and for the people of the book, a lot of that meaning is, well, in the book.
There are signs all over Israel, Chaim said, that this is starting to happen.