If a Knesset member from the left-wing Meretz party tried to pass a law stating that supermarkets must operate on Shabbat and encountered as many obstacles as the haredi demand to keep all supermarkets closed on Shabbat, rabbis would be lining up and vying for who could come up with the harshest words of condemnation that would prove how strongly the Lord opposed the bill and explain how the obstacles it was encountering were a message from heaven. It's entirely possible that the Lord doesn't like the supermarket bill, which is causing more harm than good, particularly to tradition and Judaism.
Any bill pushing religious coercion damages religion and tradition. This can be seen by how the Israeli public respects Yom Kippur and the commandment to circumcise male infants, despite the absence of any laws forcing them to do so, in contrast to the rebellion against the religious monopoly on marriage and divorce or the lack of public transportation on Shabbat.
Shas leader Aryeh Deri understands this, and in interviews on haredi radio stations he says that "secular [Israelis] will decide what kind of Shabbat they want" and that "we don't live in a state governed by Jewish law." In the last Shas faction meeting, Deri even explained that none of the haredi parties had ever put forth a bill on religious observance that did anything to change the current situation. "We don't believe in religious legislation and espouse the approach that every person will decide how they want to live."
Deri knows that no haredi man or woman needs a law to avoid wandering into a convenience store on a Saturday morning and buying potatoes for cholent [a slow-cooked stew traditionally served on Shabbat]. He also knows that if a secular person sees that the local market is closed, that won't make him or her rush to synagogue for prayers.
It's the haredi media that is pushing Deri and his friends up against this wall. While the haredi MKs are trying to walk a thin line, wisely, on matters like supermarkets or railway work on Shabbat or the status of the Western Wall, reporters in the haredi media compete to come up with the most venomous headline or tweet, tricked out as piety, and force the haredi MKs to fight a war they don't want to.
Haredi MKs don't need a furor like this on bills that have to do with matters of religion and state. Behind the scenes, they work hard and are getting the haredi public more than it has ever had. If they are dragged into a public debate about the supermarket bill, even if its content isn't really world-shaking, hurts them, as well as the unity of the government (which is the best one possible for the haredim), bolsters their "secular" opponents Yair Lapid of Yesh Atid and Labor party leader Avi Gabbay, and more than anything else, harms Judaism and Jewish tradition.
