The two religious Supreme Court judges, Neil Hendel and Noam Solberg, were the only dissenting opinions in the Supreme Court decision to allow Tel Aviv merchants to open their stores on Shabbat. Five judges ruled in favor of the motion.
Hendel said that Shabbat has a special significance in Jewish tradition and that local authorities have limited authority to allow commerce on Shabbat.
Solberg said that Shabbat is the "object which should unite everybody without the need to relinquish religious or secular ideology. Instead of Shabbat being a source of dispute, the social-societal consideration should serve for unanimous agreement."