I don't know if I'd call him a secularist, it might be more accurate to say fascist. I do agree that he appears to care little about religion except how it can buttress his idea of a powerful state to whom all owe allegiance and service. His desire to see everyone in the military, for example, does not have to do with concerns that the military does not have enough manpower (the Israeli military has not been complaining about too few enlistees) but rather his desire to use the military as a 'transforming' and 'converting' mechanism -- to ween people from their silly individualistic beliefs and make them into obedient servants of the state. Acutally, to paraphrase the Israeli general staff paraphrasing Americans "We don't want to be a social experiment." Breaking down the Ultra-Orthodx is not high on most Israeli's wish list.

"Either you are for the state of Israel or you are not." That is a simplistic and overly limited questions. More accurately you could say "Either you are for Avignor's state of Israel or you are not." Never mind differing views on what exactly the "state of Israel" should be. Bow to the Great Leader.