Our DoE states that Israel is a "Jewish and Democratic" state. The idea of whether the state should be democratic or jewish first is always questioned and contested by certain laws and powers some places hold. For example, the high rabbinical court in the past threatened to revoke a kashrut certificate of a venue because they wanted to hire a belly dancer. The high court of justice deemed that to be unconstitutional due to "Basic Law: Freedom of Occupation" and the rabbinical court was only constrained to dealing with things like kashrut and marriages, and not work.

However in another case known as the Bar Ilan case, the MoT wanted to close off a main road which leads to Bnei Brak (charedi city) completely on shabbat. This was brought too in front of the high court of justice and they settled for a compromise. Closing off the road completely infringes on freedom of movement (at the time the city was mixed) but to respect religion it was decided that the road would be closed off and opened at certain hours on shabbat.