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Bar Refaeli highway billboard roils rabbis
By Nati Toker and Adi Dovrat-Meseritz
Tags: Bar Refaeli, Israel news 

A billboard on the Ayalon highway for the Fox clothing company, featuring model Bar Refaeli, has raised the ire of the ultra-Orthodox.

Rabbi Mordechai Bloi, chairman of the Haredi group Guardians of Sanctity and Education, says the community is considering boycotting Fox. Prior to the billboard, Fox's provocative ad campaigns featuring Refaeli had been limited to TV and Internet, to which members of the community are not exposed.

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Whether people wish to see this or not is a personal choice, and we don't tell people what to do in the privacy of their home. But they cannot be permitted to poison the public environment," Bloi said. Fox has a big Haredi clientele and a large store in the religious community of Bnei Brak, and stands to lose from a boycott.
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  1.   "Guardians of Sanctity and Education" reminds me 07:10  |  Roger 22/10/09
  2.   threats and more threats 07:31  |  SJ 22/10/09
  3.   A Haredi boycott on Fox? Who are you kidding! 09:31  |  David 22/10/09
  4.   Sometimes a cover up... is good. 09:37  |  a voice 22/10/09
  5.   voice, its not that women can`t go out on the street, its . . . 10:08  |  Zev Davis 22/10/09
  6.   Still just sexism 10:43  |  Lisha Sterling 22/10/09
  7.   Lisha Sterling - You can`t be respected for your views if you 11:32  |  BBB 22/10/09
  8.   Abuse of Women--turning them into boy toys 11:53  |  Dave 22/10/09
  9.   so the man`s nipple showing is ok?? 12:10  |  penguin 22/10/09
  10.   DIdn`t King David go dancing naked in the street? 12:12  |  petra 22/10/09
  11.   But perhaps it`s her husband... what`s wrong with that...? 12:24  |  Esther 22/10/09
  12.   the Leftists railed about how Edwin O. Merwin was offensive 12:32  |  Binyamin Dissen 22/10/09
  13.   not kosher 13:06  |  Jochai Rubinstein 22/10/09
  14.   Chill out, lefties -- not all buy into your "feel good, do it" 13:18  |  American Observer 22/10/09
  15.   Unwanted ads 16:47  |  Ruth Broch 22/10/09
  16.   Haredi support for Fox 17:08  |  S. Michael 22/10/09
  17.   Looks great to me! 17:23  |  W 22/10/09
  18.   Boycotts are perfectly legitimate tactics 17:27  |  newageblues 22/10/09
  19.   Like haredi`s are what % of Fox`s sales? hahaha! 18:01  |  Hofesh 22/10/09
  20.   bar rapheli 18:08  |  ruth 22/10/09
  21.   TAKE A GOOD LOOK 18:14  |  TOBIA 22/10/09
  22.   they are right 18:19  |  amihai 22/10/09
  23.   Ya sure put a burka on her! 18:55  |  jim the mechanic 22/10/09
  24.   The smoking gun #11 19:37  |  Sean 22/10/09
  25.   Bar Rafaeli 20:07  |  Mel McManus 22/10/09
  26.   BAR REFAELI IS A NATIONAL TREASURE OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL 22:33  |  HAIM 22/10/09
  27.   Haredim 02:30  |  Aryeh 23/10/09
  28.   Israeli ayatollahs rant 04:16  |  Mark Lincoln 23/10/09
  29.   Religion 04:17  |  Mark Lincoln 23/10/09
  30.   buycott 04:56  |  mike 23/10/09
  31.   #16 How is it any concern of a JERK like you what others wear? 05:00  |  disgusted american 23/10/09
  32.   ugly haredim, what`s new? 05:21  |  Tony 23/10/09
  33.   Draft dodger Rafaeli 06:02  |  SL 23/10/09
  34.   Israel is not Rio-why not remove the towel?? 06:07  |  tooclose2detroit 23/10/09
  35.   @Haim, would you like to see your daughter 06:08  |  Doreen 23/10/09
  36.   They don`t tell people what to do in their homes? 06:25  |  B`galil 23/10/09
  37.   Haredi 07:44  |  Michelle 23/10/09
  38.   Sour Grapes again !! Look at these photos to understand... 12:03  |  Mark 23/10/09
  39.   Dave TA it sure beats honor killings an being stoned to death. 13:14  |  Petra 23/10/09
  40.   BBB Great then convince the Johns to stop paying. 13:16  |  Petra 23/10/09
  41.   Bar Refaeli highway billboard roils rabbis 17:09  |  charlie 23/10/09
  42.   Isn`t this great! Everyone arguing about sex instead of politics! 17:47  |  bat yam 23/10/09
  43.   propose to bar 18:35  |  michael 23/10/09
  44.   what about our kids 19:01  |  David 23/10/09
  45.   Isn`t this great! Everyone arguing about sex instead of politics! 20:22  |  bat yam 23/10/09
  46.   billboard ads 06:26  |  Huegelsberger Joachi 24/10/09
  47.   advertisement in general - if I may 07:17  |  Huegelsberger Joachi 24/10/09
  48.   even "the truth" 09:29  |  Huegelsberger Joachi 24/10/09
  49.   # 20 ruth really? 12:18  |  Petra 24/10/09
  50.   # 18 Newageblues how about "boycotting" ME oil? 12:19  |  petra 24/10/09
  51.   Bar Refaeli highway billboard roils rabbis 15:29  |  Meir 24/10/09
  52.   National treasure? 18:03  |  Maria 24/10/09
  53.   Maria, don`t be jealous. 00:45  |  Petra 25/10/09
  54.   Always one person 15:04  |  sabra 25/10/09
  55.   Bar Rafeali 21:11  |  Judy Cohen 14/11/09
  56.   Billboard 14:20  |  Jay 18/11/09
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