The shul we go to is Conservative so it's much more lax about Shabbat and stuff, people regularly drive there on Shabbat (though not on Yom Kippur which in Israel is kind of a special day, when it comes to keeping quiet and no driving or opening shops and such) and our shul also only does the birkat cohanim on Yom Kippur (which is another reason I only go on that day, I enjoy seeing my brother and Dad in their talleisim and do the Vulcan salute ;).

I always consider my social criticism and self-awareness a part of Jewishness which confuses a lot of my secular friends some of whom really feel no connection to the fact that they are Jewish, they're just Israeli.

Judaism here is conflated very, very strongly with Zionism, so a lot of anti-Zionist activists or post-Zionists activists are called self-hating Jews (it's happened to me, what an insult, seriously) or the they themselves renounce their Jewishness because it's a part of the oppressive system etc. etc.
Which is really sad, but I was raised in an immigrant family despite being a sabra and thus my exposure to Judaism wasn't merely the public education system and the local Israeli shuls.
Our shul is very Anglo, so the influence concepts spoken about are also not the kind you'd hear in other Israeli shuls.

Have an easy fast!