Another Israeli minister quits govt

Israeli environment minister Avi Gabbay announced his resignation on Friday, saying the appointment of a hardline nationalist as defence minister had created an "extremist government". Gabbay said that he was "unable to swallow" Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to take the defence portfolio from former general Moshe Yaalon and hand it to Avigdor Lieberman, who has pledged harsh 

measures against Palestinian "terrorists".