Gal Gadot at the Maxim Party, Talks Back
From the NY POST:
LIGHTEN UP, ISRAELIS – I’M KOSHER
By JENNIFER FERMINO
June 20, 2007 — The Israeli bikini babe whose racy picture has set tongues wagging from Tel Aviv to Turtle Bay insisted yesterday that she was just using her assets to improve Israel’s war-torn image and didn’t intend to offend anyone.
The stunning former Miss Israel and model, Gal Gadot, said she is proud of her sexy photograph – part of a new tourism campaign touted by the Israeli Consulate that show cases a host of scantily clad Hebrew hotties.
“Obviously, I don’t think it’s pornographic, or I wouldn’t have done it,” said Gadot, 22, who’s starting law school in the fall.
She added, “Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Israel is a democracy and that’s what it’s all about.”
Her picture appeared on an official invitation sent out by the consulate in New York. It touched off an uproar in Israel, where several female politicians denounced it as the wrong way to promote the Jewish state.
The invite was for a Maxim magazine party last night at Chelsea hotspot Marquee to hype its July issue showcasing “Women of the Israeli Defense Forces.”
“I’m not involved in politics,” said the 5-foot-9 beauty. “I leave that to the politicians.”
Israeli Consul-General Arye Mekel tried to diffuse the situation.
“This is the first time we used the word ‘shoot’ in connection to Israel and we’re not talking about killing people,” Mekel quipped about the photo shoot.
The Maxim article will also highlight the country’s thumping nightlife, he said.
But not everyone is thrilled.
Some pols have expressed outrage and former Consul-General Colette Avital called the campaign “pornographic.”
“She expressed her point of view to me,” Mekel said. “I responded. It’s a legitimate disagreement.”
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9 comments:
What a great party!
I had so much fun there with my friends Amos and David!!!
The israeli girls are amazing!!!
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Gal Gadot did what she did for money. If a minister kissed her, she would probably sue. If she wants to help Israel, she could volunteer to service all the he-men her cheesecake photos will attract. For free that is.
This sort of thing is OK for someone’s private Web log. It is fun and harmless there. It is hard to believe that my government sponsors it. No country except Israel wants to build an image as a sort of big house of ill-repute.
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The only thing Gal Gadot recived from anyone is a payment for the taxi from the airport. she did what she did from pure good will and her love for israel.
where you got the information that she got money for this, i don’t know.
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Yaaaaa…ur blog…are you kidding? you honestly think she didnt do this for money? Ha ha…it’s laughable! Of course she did! This is what people do to PROMOTE (look that up) their BUSINESS…and this is her business — modeling. It’s called advertising. I can guarantee you that she did NOT do it for Israel. Maybe she was represnting Israel, but that’s because she happens to be Israeli and lives there. She gets money for doing this in Israel, you think she would come to America to do this for free??? Are you insane???
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actually eric, your an idiot. you have no idea what you’re talking about, but yet you continue talking. all the models in the shoot were paid an editorial fee, which amounts to about $250 per model. wow, big bucks huh? and BTW, Gal is enrolled in law school in the fall, so while she might make a little money from some extra modeling jobs this summer as a result of all of this free publicity- it’s not her career. but please, continue talking and making a fool of yourself…it’s actually quite entertaining.
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Wow what more can i say did Israel proud one way to promote the country. But hey a lot of the women are like that there Beautiful just like the country.
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I finally see the real truth about the phrase “sex sells” what a great example for all the viewers Miss Israel,is a gold digger,The idf is a seriouse matter,what gives! someone made a bad choice to pick her as a miss israel,it was not donald trump that bend her over,idf faces terror and now embarresment because of a bimbo like gal gadot…i applaud you, to have the guts mss israel to make citizens of israel to look like fools ,
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Hi I am an Iraqi and I admire this campaign, maybe we should do the same after we promote first a partition plan and have Iraq pull away from the Shiites and Kurds so that we can finally breathe and rebuild a modern state after the Shiites ruined it and promote such a campaign, Gal was a great Miss Israel, she is sexy and I adore her, and the campaign is classy, go Israel.
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