In this clip (02:16), i24NEWS explores the growing, country-wide push to operate public buses on Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. For religious Jews, the sanctity of Shabbat reigns supreme in this controversy, whereas for Israel’s secular public, the values of democracy and civil rights are front and center. The question of religion and state has always been a contentious issue in Israel, and the public transit controversy is just one of its many manifestations.