The IDF's latest target: Supermodel Bar Refaeli

Just another self-absorbed, narcissistic draft dodger who can't interrupt her money-grubbing to serve her country.

Maybe she opposes war on moral grounds.

Fox: I will not buy your products

you should make an exception for her because she is so good looking and should be some sort of an ambassador for your country. i recall when Peres had a visit to France he brought her with him

And trying to "shame" those who refuse to go: It is your "duty" to become a slave for the next three years, and if you refuse you ought to be ashamed of yourself!

Surely the IDF has more important things to do than pick on a model.

Compulsory army service is a form of slavery. It has no place in a free society.

I dont understand why this woman is being boycotted. Please someone explain it to me. She served her time right? In the IDF? I dont understand

I consider myself a principled Zionist, but would have happily helped Bar avoid the draft if it meant marrying her. In any event, if Israel had any public relations sense at all, they'd offer Refaeli a chance to serve the military in some unique way more befitting her "talents". Ronald Reagan never fired a shot in anger, but he did his time with the U.S. Army. Clearly, Refaeli's potential as a goodwill ambassador exceeds what services she could have offered as a jobnik.

The IDF is jealous that they could not exploit Bar Refaeli themselves. If she had served in the IDF. It would have used her Supermodel status for their own promotion without having to pay the enormous fee she usually gets. One can hardly believe that the army would have just stuck her into any old unit and quietly forgotten about who she was, and what selling power she has.

Elvis went into the army - and sang to the troops perhaps bar could have entertained the troops. SIMCHA

From great historical victories to major modern defeats.

Oh my .What a joke !! Haredim come to me regularly and ask me to write a report saying they are unfit for army service on thmental health grounds I refuse ! They sit in yesivot "learning" . Bar Refaeli is no different except shes more honesrt .Give it a break!!

instinctively don't buy anything she advertises and her mother is wrong. She won't continue to succeed because she did not stand up for something more important than herself.Shame on her. Empty soul

Really! I agree wholeheartedly with 29. Ros.

Has the IDF nothing else to think about except those people who have not served. They should worry about giving special privileges to those who have served and are still serving! She is a very good ambassador for Israel doing what she does!

I would contend with Bar's decision to manipulate her way out of serving if it were not for my predominate opinion no women should serve in the IDF. It reeks of sexual misconduct, reinforces sexual hierarchy, and promotes the notion that men are macho and women are little Lolita's, regardless of the Uzi swung over her shoulders ! If Rafaeli's choice is to objectify herself sexually at least let her be paid rather than forced to hand out freebies the IDF demands. Make no mistake about it!

Gen. Zamir is focusing on Rafaeli because she's a *role* model. The last thing the IDF needs is a generation of girls who think "Rafaeli didn't serve. Why should I?" And, yes, I oppose the blanket exemptions given to yeshiva students. (Did the religious not fight during Roman times?) Those who *do* serve should be rewarded: granted preferential access to government jobs and university placement, for example. Scholarships and breaks on mortgages would be nice too. And, yes, recruiters are right to watch out for "fakers", whether they are secular Tel Aviv artists or girls claiming to be "religious". I'm hardly sympathetic to those who excuse her for her looks. Many, many years ago I was a student at Hebrew U. My physics lab partner in my brief time there was a very smart, and quite striking, young woman. And *she* served!

You guys are doing the work of boycotting for us... Please, leave something to do for us too!

Bar Rafaeli will need to get a life, a real life, one day. I served in the IDF once upon a time, and thought it an honour - although the IDF was as far from perfect then as it undoubtedly is now. Thinking of the IDF, Avi Zamir needs to get a life right now, and think carefully how important his opinion really is in this matter, in the scale of things. Come to think of it, i need to get a life too.

lets see the mother retort is she is acting and successful IDF = israeli military who safeguards israel vs rafaeli who succeeds at what??!! and for whom?? and something to us all to aspire to what?? great argument!!

I came to israel as a 24 year old. Spent one year volunteering in my profession. married a tudai (in the army). my daughter did the army and now my son is in the army. as far as i am concerned i wish we didn't need an army. but look where we live. i wish my son would be in university studying and having fun as all 19 year olds do.i am proud that my beautiful and talented daughter served and now my son serves but at the same time shocked by the inequality of who gets out of the army and who does more then their fair share of the awful burden.

he could and should be sued for incitement to boycot by a person in official position in a public event

she could evade the IDF service if she pretended to go to a yeshiva, as many healthy young men do. she could have married before the age of 18, like most hareddis girls do. No, she did not go to a yeshiva and she got married at a later age with the man of HER CHOICE and she lives abroad. so what? she does not serve in the army and she will pay less taxes, there is no crime here

made up of real soldiers instead of settler riff-raff and their rabbis. And this time make it a real defense force. Keeping on calling it "IDF" is laughable.

naturally a celebrity makes the headlines which is small fry compared to 75 % of the charideem who dont serve. Dont suppose Moshe Cohen from the Yeshiva would hit the headlines !

you can choose whether you wish to serve in the military or not?

Just one small question, did you serve? If not, what was your excuse You needn't ask, I served, so I do feel free to comment

.....won't make her look as pretty anymore. Not only when it comes to her face, but also when it comes to her heart....

Some people are meant to dig up muddy trenches for the Army, while others are meant to look gorgeous and sexy. Live with it!

She's sexy, leave her alone!

The supermodel didn't have to get married to evade IDF service: she could pretend to be religious and IDF service is immodest.

Mind police attacks again, and again. They forget about their own kids, ministers' kids, and even prime ministers' children who were not drafted or would be sent to serve in a ridiculous unit as Mr. Netanyahu's son has done. Bar, forget about it. These people are ugly in any given sense. Let's buy more Fox.

Well, I have to admit that her mother is completely right in what she is saying. Where is criticism when the daughters or sons of our big politicians, which all pretend to be the biggest zionists, study all abroad, or if the children of diplomatic staff get out of the army that they can accompany their parents abroad.

She should have gone to the army...who the hell does she think she is? She isn't exempt from the army just because she has pretty T&A

The army already cooked up a deal with Haredim, who are actually being PAID to serve, so why not go on with the farce and pay her too? The army itself releases boys and girls with such easy: where are the limits? As a father of three children that serve and served in the army, I am appalled by the double standards the army is using.

this is truly a non story so have fun with it... imho they should just put billboards on both sides of the border, now ask yourselve who in their right mind would wish to destroy or shoot anything after seeing that...

True, Bar evaded her army service. But she is gone, she chooses to be out of the country most of the time. Clean your own house. 50% of the eligible draftees who live here in Israel don't enlist. They have fake psychiatric problems..only from the best family's but then go to art and music school who gladly except them .You have the girl's who suddenly become religious and do sherut leumi in the hospitals. And of course the ultra orthodox are are all brillant yeshiva scholars and just can't serve because the kashrut in the army isn't kosher enough or they might see a female soldier or they don't have time to pray. Give me a break. So leave the supermodel alone and clean shop at home.

With all due respect to super models, Israel can't survive without its army. Celebrities like Ms. Rafaeli should be pushed (and even coerced) to do their duty, which is what the IDF is doing. "If the fire took the big cedar trees, what will the small shrubs say"?

No one has to serve in the army !

Every must serve in the Army !

Under the motto Beauty deceives the Beast she could 'somehow' disturb the concentration of terrorists from firing precisely at target while IDF specials sneak in to take them out. Use your imagination!

anyone in their right mind would not join an occupation army whose sole reason for existence is to humiliate and detroy another people...Bar Refaeli can get citizenship anywhere in the world and she doesn't owe you a dime