Within the heterogeneous national-religious Israeli context it is possible to outline two Jewish-political-religious movements profoundly different: Sephardi Ultra-Orthodoxy of Shas Party ("Sephardic Guardians of the Torah") and Religious Zionism in its most decisive development through the experience of Gush Emunim ("The Block of the Faithful"). This article aims to identify the theological differences and the political-practice challenges between these two understandings. The comparative analysis argues that while both movements legitimize the State of Israel as a given fact, they diverge fundamentally in their understanding of sovereignty and its meaning within the religious framework. For Shas, the state functions as an effective instrument for bringing the Jewish population closer to the observance of Judaism. The idea of "the Restoration of the Crown to its former Glory" fosters the development of a form of ethno-religious ultranationalism capable of delineating the boundaries of the Jewish collective. For religious Zionism, which intensified and assumed different political forms after 1967, the nation-state became both a practical and symbolic agent in the process of messianic redemption, which could only be achieved through Jewish settlement in the territories of biblical Israel through the sanctification of the "wholeness of the land". This comparison thus brings to light two distinct forms of messianism - one passive and the other active - each giving rise to a different configuration of the relationship between religion and nationalism.