I know it sounds a little too good to be true but Southwest Airlines in an effort to boost profits has placed a picture of Sports Illustrated swimsuit model Bar Refaeli on one of their Boeing 737 airplanes. Bar Refaeli appears on this years Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues cover, and she is smoking hot.
Now I know that riots must erupting in Israel right now due to this scantily clad beauty adorning an airplane (lets hope that Southwest Airlines doesn’t decide to fly this airplane with the swimsuit picture to Tel Aviv) and yesterdays election, but let us not jump the boat. Everyone knows that Israel is terrible when it comes to PR, they simply cannot compete with the Arabs in this department, so why not publicize Israel with its beautiful women?
Last years Maxim Magazine featuring women of the IDF was great for boosting Israels image as a regular place where smoking hot girls carry around grenade launchers and teach Israeli men how to assassin Hezbolah terrorists from 500 yards away.
I can only imagine what women’s groups have to say, but it does make up for the fact that flight attendants looks have gone down in recent years, with the influx of men into the career and the notion that being a flight attendant just isn’t as cool as it was during the 60’s.
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First no hidden fees, now this. Who would fly on any other plane?
i approve… great PR for israel
ah, true yiddish’ah nachas :0)
They also have free WiFi while their WiFi launch is in beta.
Wouldn’t be the same without a picture eh?
That was sarcastic..
I thought the model on the cover of SI was Esti something…
I didn’t think I would ever see the picture of the farby and that so close to each other.
Shkoiach for that shidduch.
Baruch Ata Hashem Elokenu Melech Haolam Shekacha Lo Beolamo!
Heshy, you need to work this new phenomenon of “sexting” into a post someday. Here’s a link -
http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_02_11_Hang-up_for_%E2%80%98sexting__boys:_Six_middle-schoolers_may_face_kid_porn_rap/srvc=home&position=3
Too bad they didn’t have cellphones when I was a kid
Jessica – Esti Ginzburg is a first year for SI and is not on the cover.
Wow, I’m a buckey.
What’s the point? It’s not like you can see her on the inside.
She is pretty hot as hell, but one question, Is that picture of her also on the inside of the plane? If not, then why pay for what everyone else can see but you. Is yes, then that’s a pretty nice airline, any hot guys plastered anywhere on the plane?
i wonder what the public reaction would be to a hot israeli guy on the side of a plane….
better yet, how much do these models get paid?!
If you ever want to kind of insult a Jewish girl who isn’t exactly frum and get away with it – tell her she’s a true “daughter of Israel or Ya’akov” According to nigle, Dinah was his only daughter and she was known of course for “going out…” and then the incident with Shchem”
This story reminds me of that.
Ah, the benos Israel…
Anyone ever wonder how hot Rachel Imanu must have been?
Ronen Levi Yitzchak Segal – You are definitely a strange one… Are you a little too cuckoo for “cocoa” puffs or something? Lay off the “sugar!”
Intersting comments about the matriachs. I wonder exactly what the Torah was reffering to when it mentions Yephas toar, more specifically, by who’s standards?
My dad grew up in North Africa, their standards were quite different than SI. They reffered “well fed” women to skinny ones to the point that they had this saying about “she’s so beutiful she can hardly walk”.
Given that we descend to these women (the imos) , and that today’s Jewish girls come in all sort of interesting shapes and sizes, I very highly doubt that the imos were anything like the blond haired / blue eyed babes you see in mags todays.
Ronen, she was going out on mivtzoim, not to a bar. Trying to influence the shiksas of Shchem.
Perfect. Now there’s gonna be all the more distracted geese flying into engines and (ch”vsh) taking down planes.
Over the last few months I noticed a rash of “hot Israeli girls”/”hot IDF girls” postings around the web and now this. It is good PR and its something the trrrrrrists cant compete with. There never was and never will be a Burqua Babes of Hamas calendar/swimsuit issue, etc.
dude, can i get a seat on the wing of the plane instead of inside the plane, got to love that eye candy!!!
this is awesome, i know exactly what their tag line is going to be.
Now you too can boast to your friends that you took a ride inside bar refaeli…
I wonder what her first name is, can’t imagine any Hebrew speaking person wanting to name his daughter “son”.
I’m flying Southwest in March … I wonder if we’ll get this plane!?!?
Chris,
I hate to say it but that’s one they’ve got on us. The muslims have a concept of tznius which is pretty much universal in that community.
People that are attracted to this garbage are not the people whose opinion you care about anyway.
HifH – I hate to say it but that’s one they’ve got on us. The Muslims have a concept of tznius which is pretty much universal in that community.
Are you kidding? I know plenty of Muslims and their level of tzniut runs the gamut depending on their level of observance. Just like among Jews.
The fact that you don’t see any “hot” girls of most Arab/Muslim countries is because they are afraid of being killed in many cases!
Ronen – You have some of the oddest fetishes ever. Seriously, bible fetish. WHAT?
I wouldn’t mind boning this chick
wow! thanks frum satire. I dont know how i would make it thru my day without seeing this quazi porn!
go ride your tricycle that you speak to fondly of.
“yay! EVEN more pointless drivel” – Hey Frumsatire, it looks like someone’s got a crush on you! I think he wants you bad, but too shy to tell you how gay he is.
What a kiddush hashem!
But will the “heimish” folks boycott Southwest? Will they demand they cover her up?
Heterim are for Hippies,
That wasnt my point at all. I’m saying this is good PR for the state of Israel considering recent events. Regular people world wide when given a choice between a pretty woman or a black sack will tend to favor the pretty woman. Israel has had a bit of an image problem in the past, this sort of thing helps address that.
Otherwise it looks like some of the five year olds missed their nap times and got cranky.
I was surprised to see a copy of her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issue photo and noticed that she doesn’t even have a swimsuit on in the photo. She’s wearing nothing at all. As someone who wanted to see the swimsuits, I am very disappointed!
YANKEL – let me introduce you to my friend: google.
eh i think that its pretty sad. im okay with men looking at the scantily clad babes in the privacy of their own homes… oh sex driven american materialism
more importantly – are the seats by her chest more expensive? (i know some guys dont get that close too often…)
She kinda looks like a younger Tzipi Livni… both are devoid of Jewish values.
Actually,
I’ve seen Iranian music videos… think bellydancers….