Wednesday - May 18, 2011

Speaking of Looking Familiar

Hey, remember her?



best recruiting poster evah!


This picture was all over the internet 4 years or so ago. Women in uniform, Women of the IDF, girls with guns, etc. A heart stoppingly adorable young woman serving her country.

Well, um, it didn’t happen by chance.

The young woman’s name is Agam Rodberg, and before joining the IDF she was one of the top teen fashion models in Israel. They have a universal draft over there: graduate high school and go do your hitch in the service. No exceptions. Well, that’s the theory. The reality is that almost one in four young Izzies avoids serving. Draft dodgers. Some of those young folks have a bit of a legitimate excuse; they are out there earning fame and fortune from a young age, and a couple years absence could be a career killer. Others (women) who get married very young do not have to serve. The IDF thought about it, and made an honest effort for youths like that. They devised a special “light duty” branch of the service, with unlimited time off for performances and shows. So all the musicians, actors, models, and generally famous types can fulfill their service requirement with the least amount of career interruption. Kudos to the IDF for being upfront about a practice which many countries do surreptitiously.

After the special service program for exceptional athletes and gifted musicians, the IDF has begun working on a similar program for exceptional celebrities.

Athletes and musicians recognized by the army as highly talented are given the possibility of enlisting to an “easy” military service, which enables them to continue training and practicing while serving in the IDF.

The new plan was created in a bid to deal with the growing rate of draft dodging, which has recently reached 25% of all youth. One of the main problems identified by the officers was the shirking of military duty by the teenagers’ role models, particularly young artists who have chosen not to serve in the army in order to pursue their career.

“We must make an effort to enlist the public opinion leaders,” a senior officer said Monday.

That was 4 years ago. Did it work? Hmm, maybe we should ask swimwear model and former Leonardo DiCaprio arm candy Bar Rafaeli who avoided serving by a quickie sham marriage and divorce ...

Given her history with the Israeli Defence Forces, some may perceive Bar Refaeli’s latest photoshoot as a bold manoeuvre.

In what may be seen as an act of defiance, the Israel-born model poses topless for GQ Italia in nothing but a helmet and shorts - seven years after managing to dodge national service in her home country.

While military service is a must for both men and women Israelis once they reached 18, it emerged in 2007 how Bar had managed to avoid doing a three year spell by marrying an acquaintance.
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According to Jewish news site ynet.com, Bar said she didn’t regret getting into an arranged marriage to avoid national service.

‘I don’t regret not enlisting, because it paid off big time,’ she is reported as saying. ‘That’s just the way it is, celebrities have other needs. I hope my case has influenced the army. Why is it good to die for our country? What, isn’t it better to live in New York? ‘Why should 18-year-old kids have to die? It’s dumb that people have to die so that I can live in Israel.’
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[ In 2009 ] a feud developed between Refaeli and fellow Israeli model Esti Ginzburg, who served in the army and criticised Bar’s avoidance tactics.

But this was a post about the girl behind the salute. She was very successful as a teen model; she isn’t insanely tall or mind numbingly beautiful or skinny as a stick. No, she’s of normal height, cute as a button, and she has a damn good figure. In other words, she’s one of the best normal girls going. And that sells very well too. Looks like she tried her hand at acting too, and did a few TV commercials. Where is she now? I have no idea. Maybe she’s out of the Army and has gone back to modeling. But she still shows up at the top of various celebrity sites, even some of the more unusual ones.

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