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Bar Refaeli’s U.S. RoadtripCall her the Israeli Tocqueville. Bar Refaeli, the first Israeli model to pose for the Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition, upped her visibility in the United States even further last week, guiding viewers across the country in an October 3 TV special for the cable channel Bravo. “Ironic Iconic America,” filmed with the input of fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, featured the 23-year-old Refaeli visiting such famous locations as Venice Beach, Calif.; Niagara Falls, N.Y., and South Dakota’s Mount Rushmore. “I’ve always been in love with America,” Refaeli told a Fox 11 reporter in Los Angeles. “It was nice to learn more about it, and all the icons and things that are very American.”…Read more

Conservative Coif: The Sarah Palin WigAmerica’s most controversial hockey mom has inspired a new item made for religious women that probably isn’t sold up there in Alaska, gosh darn it!…Read more

Israeli Show Hits CBSFollowing a year of preparations, one of Israel’s most famous fictional bachelorettes is finally ready for American TV.…Read more

Animated Drama Claims Top Prizes at ‘Israeli Oscars’And the award for the best Israeli film of the year went to… “Waltz With Bashir,” an animated feature that swept the major honors at Israel’s version of the Oscars, broadcast September 23 in Tel Aviv.…Read more

Israeli-Inspired Show Grabs a Few EmmysThe Emmys doesn’t have a foreign language category, so Israel’s TV industry had to make do with winning an award by proxy September 21 at the annual red carpet event in Los Angeles.…Read more