Under the headline “War Movie,” Yedioth Ahronoth on Sept. 25 offered its readers no less than eight editorials in response to Culture Minister Miri Regev’s commotion du jour. This time it occurred at the Sept. 23 Ophir Awards, often called the “Israeli Oscars.” For the sake of balance, half the editorials praised Regev, who walked out of the film awards ceremony when a poem by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish was performed. The rest of the respondents focused on Regev’s populism, hypocrisy and divisiveness and the misinformation she employed.

Obviously, Yedioth Ahronoth wasn’t the only newspaper to cover the uproar in a manner typically reserved for shocking major events, although it was just another provocation. In fact, it was nothing more than yet another drop in a steady stream of invective, in which Regev stands alone against the elites, the left, Ashkenazim (Jews of European origin), Arabs and, of course, the media.

It was impossible for anyone who turned on the television Friday evening to avoid Regev. The various networks constantly rebroadcast images of her storming out of the hall while Israeli Arab rapper Tamer Nafar performed Darwish’s “Identity Card.’’ As if that were not enough to bring the media drama to a crescendo, Regev called a press conference the next day, right before the Sabbath, to accuse artists of thuggery. That event also received extensive coverage. In addition, Channels 2 and 10 aired interviews with Regev, who added nothing to the debate. All she did was repeat her time-worn mantra that she will not be silenced, compared the performance of Darwish’s poem to “spitting in the face of the Israeli audience” and added that she did not reach her position just so she could “wander around, a glass of wine in hand, at the primaries.” On Channel 10 news, she went on to explain, “I arrived [at my position] to introduce policies that would reduce social divisions and to promote social justice, cultural justice and cultural institutions.”

That wasn’t the end of the Regev festival. All of Saturday night’s current events shows focused on Regev’s response. The party continued well into Sunday morning. All the while, social media was seething. Regev stood at the center of the uproar, even overshadowing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to the United States, his meeting with President Barack Obama, his address to the UN General Assembly’s annual meeting and interviews he gave to the Israeli press from New York. To Regev’s credit, it must be said that she knows how to steal the spotlight, even from Netanyahu, the master of mass communication.