It could always be changed, like anything else in Israeli society, though the political process. The religious never got quite as much as they would have liked, and the secular extremists were never fully able to suppress them either. Until Aharon Barak, that is. We Americans look to the judicial to interpret the law, and to legislatures to make it. Aharon Barak, Chief Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, has found a way to do both at the same time.
Every human behavior is subject to a legal norm.
Big Brother in judicial garb is still Big Brother. Sunday's demonstration makes the answer obvious. For while Chief Justice Barak happily churns out new policies from his bench, a disproportionate part of his activism is aimed at redefining the Jewishness of the Jewish state to agree more with his devoutly secular tastes. Those who share those tastes are not getting terribly outraged, when they are achieving what they couldn't in fifty years of political activity. While the 1992 Basic Laws recognized Israel's commitment to both Judaism and democracy, Barak managed to transpose the former neatly into the latter.