{"id":1062,"date":"2007-11-05T13:01:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T19:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2007-12-05T17:40:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-06T00:28:32","slug":"raging-rafaeli-sues-israeli-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=1062","title":{"rendered":"Raging Rafaeli sues Israeli newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishjournal.com\/thecalendargirls\/\">Dikla Kadosh writes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leo&#8217;s ex, who&#8217;s quickly moved on to pro surfer Kelly Slater, has an odd way of doing damage control.<\/p>\n<p>After the Israeli supermodel tarnished her image in an October Yediot Ahronot article titled &quot;Bar Refaeli Versus the State of Israel,&quot; where she essentially declared how little she cared about the country of her birth (<a href=\"http:\/\/jewishjournal.com\/thecalendargirls\/2007\/10\/bar-refaeli-to-ditch-israel.html\">see my last post<\/a>), she decided suing the largest newspaper in Israel for libel would be the best way to handle the storm of negative publicity.<\/p>\n<p>According to Haaretz, another Israeli newspaper, Refaeli&#8217;s lawyer sent a scathing letter to Yediot, claiming she was manipulated and misquoted and deserves half a million shekel ($125,000) in personal damages.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dikla Kadosh writes: Leo&#8217;s ex, who&#8217;s quickly moved on to pro surfer Kelly Slater, has an odd way of doing damage control. 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