2. The flower of Israeli youth

JPost reports:

Police and the court system were busy Thursday trying to convince youths arrested during Monday's street protests against disengagement to cooperate and identify themselves so they could be released or indicted...

"The parents and the youths are causing everyone a big headache," one Prisons Service official said. "All the parents need to do is come identify their kids, post bail and they will be released." The deal also requires detainees to refrain from participating in future demonstrations and remain in their home communities for the next 30-60 days.

Shmuel Meidad, head of the Honenu Jewish prisoner welfare association, said the prisoners refused to identify themselves as an act of protest against the courts.

"They refuse to identify since they want to be released without any restrictions," Meidad said. "The prisoners believe that if the police arrested them, then the police must take care of them and give them food and a place to sleep."

Meanwhile Thursday, a group of girls, ranging in age from 13 to 15 and locked up in Masiyahu Prison in Ramle, launched a hunger strike in protest against what they called the "humiliating treatment" they were subjected to by prison guards. The girls accused the guards of beating them and verbally harassing them.

I tip my hat in awe and admiration.

In a related but separate story, JPost reports:

Police: Yeshiva teachers responsible for road demos

More than 200 minors have been arrested for taking part in highway demonstrations against the disengagement plan, and most of the protestors are yeshiva students, police official told the Knesset Interior Committee on Thursday...

According to a police operations official, Dep.-Insp. Avi Ben-Hamo, 414 people have been arrested since the wave road protests began, 214 of them minors. He blamed yeshiva and girls seminary teachers for sending the pupils to the streets to block roads.

And in a third story about the courageous Israeli youth, Arutz 7 reports as follows:

Over 1,000 Sign Petition to Take Matriculation

Over 1,000 students have affixed their names to a petition being submitted to Education Minister Limor Livnat requesting they be permitted to take matriculation exams in prison, expecting to be jailed during the summer.

The students explain they will most likely be in jail when the summer exams are given due to their opposition to the Gaza/Shomron Disengagement Plan. They are calling on the ministry to make the appropriate accommodations.

3. KGB in denial

From Arutz 7:

Prison Officials Deny Arrestees Basic Rights & Freedoms

The left-wing champions of democracy were not noisy in their efforts to safeguard the rights of hundreds arrested earlier in the week during the nationwide road-closures in opposition to the expulsion plan.

According to a Channel 2 TV report on Tuesday, over 500 persons, mostly minors were arrested in protests around the country.

According to attorney Amikam Hadar, many detainees were not permitted to recite prayers, were denied kosher meals that meet their religious requirements, and were not permitted to telephone their parents and attorneys

4. More about the efforts of Israel's youth

From Arutz 7:

40 Anti-Disengagement Hunger Strikers in Day 5

Forty university students hunger striking in protest against the Gaza/Shomron Disengagement Plan are in day 5 of their effort. They are hunger striking in a tent encampment opposite the Prime Minister’s Office, sustaining themselves only on water.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Tzvi Tal visited the hunger strikers today in an act of solidarity. Justice Tal expressed his opposition to the forced expulsion of citizens, calling it “not only a crime, but foolish.”

Justice Tal added “perhaps the majority is exploiting the minority.”