A woman who took to Facebook to vent her disgust after being shoved to the back of a bus in Israel, despite segregation being outlawed more than a year ago, has sparked outrage across the country.

Tanya Rosenblit, 28, from the southern town of Ashdod, boarded a bus to an Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Shortly after she sat down behind the driver, a man wearing the black garb and flowing sidelocks of the ultra-Orthodox boarded the bus and asked her to move.

Since Ms Rosenblit spoke of her treatment she has become a cause celebre in the Israeli media over the weekend.

The case even drew public comment from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and chief rabbis, who said they deplored gender segregation.