The World According to Bar
- The Stranger, The Big Lebowski
And this Bar needs to eat some humble pie.
Top model Bar Refaeli, who recently granted a less than patriotic interview to Yedioth Ahronoth, slammed Israel yet again in a six-page interview with the British Tatler magazine.
The magazine’s October issue features a smiling Refaeli, although it is unlikely the average Israeli reading her interview will be left with the same expression.
“In Israel, everyone thinks they can touch you. The paparazzi there are very rude and they touch me. In Israel, everyone thinks they can do all sorts of stuff. They feel that the can talk to me, touch me, and say, ‘Hold on a minute,’ and I’ll stop. I’m not comfortable in Israel. I just feel very uncomfortable,” Refaeli told interviewer Camilla Long.
The six-page interview details Refaeli’s instant rise to fame as a model at 8 months. “The baby ads still run today,” the model boasted.
“When I was born, nobody was named ‘Bar’. But my mother was famous, and when I was born, a big article was published featuring my name in large print. Now loads of kids are called ‘Bar’, boys and girls.”
The interview also touched on Rafaeli’s draft-dodging, which she shrugged off, saying she could not enlist because she was sick and hospitalized. She elegantly avoided all mention of her hasty and convenient marriage to a much older family friend, which exempt her from having to enlist to the IDF.
When Long tried coaxing her about it, the Israeli model said, “I’m sick, and that’s how I’m treated? They treated me badly on purpose because I was famous. It was ridiculous.”
Refaeli also took a moment to dismiss compliments granted her by the Israeli public. “Sometimes my mom tells me I was voted number one whatever in Israel. She asks if I’m excited, and I say, ‘No. I really don’t care. Let’s move on.’”
One a positive note, Refaeli pointed out what she did like about her homeland. “I like riding horses and going out to restaurants with friends,” the top model concluded.
I’m surprised she is able to walk the runway, given how far her head is up her own tush.
But not to worry, Bar. You still have your admirers.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Uncategorized
When she was born, was anybody named “talentless moe-ron?” It’s a Biblical name.
May G-d bless and keep the Bar………… far away from us!
(Maybe Avrum Burg knows of a nice chalet next to his in France).
My first comment, but this girl drove me over the edge.
GIVE IT A REST ALREADY! Millions of people in the US, NYC, Miami, LA, Philadelphia, Ohio and Michigan have moved from these cities and don’t have good things to say. England has an outflux of emmigrants who are cynical right? As does England and France have a lot of refugee’s going into the country. Find me a country and city, I’ll find you people who hate the place.
Her story isn’t special, except she’s milking it. But that would be giving her too much credit. The ONLY reason this is a story, and making it into these magazines is because she’s talking about Israel, not Columbus Ohio. If she was talking about Budapest or Durban, this wouldn’t be a story.
And once she leaves Santa Monica or the Hills and stops getting modeling money, good luck with LA.
My gosh, talk about self-centered and blind. And now she’s some fake spokesperson of what should be a “who cares?” opinion. How long till Amenijihad quotes her in his rally’s?
Think about it. All the people or girls from the mid-west moving to Los Angeles hoping to be famous who never want to go home again. Is this a one of a kind or groundbreaking story???? It happens everyday. Maybe she should go where she would be the only Jew in town. Go all the way. “They” say Hollywood and the media and LA is run by Jews right? What’d she accomplish? Come on Bar, go all the way!
This young damsel is shooting herself in the foot. She’s allowing herself to easily forget (or perhaps she didn’t notice in the first place) that the modeling world is extremely fickle, and she will eventually find herself on the outside looking in – quicker than she may have expected. When this time comes, and she eventually returns to Israel, her bad attitude isn’t going to score any points with the local industry.
Bar needs to sit down with Kid Rock over a “Beam and Coke”.
Maybe “shooting the [bleep]” – one “Hollywood [bleep]er” to another will knock some humility into her….
At least we still have Dana International…
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