Israel military chiefs have called for model Bar Refaeli to be banned from a new campaign promoting the country because she did not complete her military service.<\/p>\nIsrael military chiefs have called for model Bar Refaeli to be banned from a new campaign promoting the country because she did not complete her military service.<\/p>\n
The Israel Defense Forces has written a letter to the country\u2019s Foreign Ministry opposing her appointment in the new advertising campaign.<\/p>\n
The model did not complete military service after she married in 2007. She divorced soon afterwards.<\/p>\n
It is compulsory for women to do two years of service in the armed forces unless they have specific exemptions including being married or pregnant.<\/p>\n
Men have to complete three years of service from the age of 18. Refaeli has been chosen to feature in a series of adverts promoting technology and innovation in Israel.<\/p>\n
The Times of Israel reported that IDF Brigadier General Yoav Mordechai wrote to the Foreign Ministry to urge then to reconsider their choice.<\/p>\n
He said that it sets the wrong example to young Israeli\u2019s. He asked them to consider \u2018the negative message\u2019 being sent out by using the model as the country\u2019s \u2018representative\u2019.<\/p>\n
Brig Gen. Mordechai was quoted in the Times of Israel as writing: \u2018In recent years, the IDF has been trying a variety of methods to improve the value of military service and to combat draft evasion, in order to preserve the moral dimension whereby the IDF if the people\u2019s army.\u2019<\/p>\n
But Refaeli was bullish in her response to the criticism in her homeland. She wrote on her Twitter account in Hebrew: \u2018Foreign Office use the video or not but my Instagram has more readers than the Yedioth Ahronoth (Israel\u2019s most popular newspaper)!\u2019 The Foreign Ministry also defended their decision.<\/p>\n
In a statement quoted by the Times of Israel, a spokesman said: \u2018Refaeli is considered one of the most beautiful women in the world and is widely recognised as an Israeli\u2019. <\/p>\n
In 2010, the Israeli army reportedly launched a campaign against the swimsuit model and called for a boycott on the products she promotes.<\/p>\n
Armed forces human resources director Avi Zamir told students in Tel Aviv: \u2018At the end of the day, she is the one who has to look at herself in the mirror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Israel military chiefs have called for model Bar Refaeli to be banned from a new campaign promoting the country because she did not complete her military service. The Israel Defense Forces has written a letter to the country\u2019s Foreign Ministry opposing her appointment in the new advertising campaign. The model did not complete military service […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[688],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-infotainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}