Israeli Actress Gal Gadot Gets Star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame

On March 18 Israeli actress Gal Gadot received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, the first Israeli actress to be granted such an honor.

As reported by the Times of Israel,

In her speech at the event, Gadot referred several times to her Israeli roots. “I’m just a girl from Israel,” she said, drawing loud cheers from her supporters in the audience. “To all the young people, especially the young girls, if a girl from Rosh Ha’ayin can get a star on Hollywood Boulevard, anything is possible.”

Gadot also addressed her Israeli family in Hebrew, saying that she loves them, even though they are far away.

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Gal Gadot Tells Hebrew Joke to James Corden on The Late Late Show

Last week Israeli film star Gal Gadot was a guest on James Corden's Late Late Show. Corden played a game with Gadot called "Gal-Ga-Yes or Gal-Ga-No" in which she had to successfully complete four tasks. 

The first test was to throw a grape in the air and catch it in the air on her first try.

The next task was to tell a joke in Hebrew and make Hagar Ben-Ari, the band's bass guitarist, laugh.

She told the joke very quickly and Hagar laughed, but the joke was not translated into English.

If the joke went too fast for you to get, here's the translation: 

Why is a baby like instant coffee? It's easy to make and it keeps you up all night.

Enjoy the next two tasks and Gadot's success with them.

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Gal Gadot Teaches You Hebrew Slang

Gal Gadot is an Israeli actress and model. At age 18, she was crowned Miss Israel 2004. She then served two years in the Israel Defense Forces as a soldier, whereafter she began studying at the IDC Herzliya college, while building her modeling and acting careers.

Gadot's first international film role came as Gisele Yashar in Fast & Furious (2009), a role she reprised in several subsequent installments of the film franchise. She went on to achieve global stardom for portraying Diana Prince / Wonder Woman in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), followed by the solo film Wonder Woman (2017), the ensemble Justice League (2017), the sequel Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and the alternate cut Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021).

But did you know she can also be a Hebrew teacher, at least when it comes to teaching us Hebrew slang? In this video, Gal teaches us 14 Hebrew slang expressions and explains how they are used.

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Israeli Wonder Woman Actress Gal Gadot Starts Saturday Night Live with Hebrew Monologue

Last week Gal Gadot, the Israeli actress who plays the lead role in the Wonder Woman movie, took a star turn hosting Saturday Night Live. The show was broadcast in Israel for the first time and Gadot opened her monologue with a special message in Hebrew.

After a shoutout to her Ema and Aba, Gadot told her Israeli listeners that the writers here know nothing about Israel and had her eating hummus in every sketch. The American audience ate it all up.

Enjoy!

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Move Over, French & Italian. The World's Sexiest Accent is.....Israeli!

What accent do single men think is the sexiest? You might guess French or Italian, but you'd be wrong according to the latest poll. Surprise! It's Israeli. 

As Benyamin Cohen wrote on the website From the Grapevine,

One thing most men can agree upon is that there's just something special about a woman with an accent. Indeed, a new survey of 1,164 American men ranked the world's sexiest accents. “Accents have a tendency of taking our minds to unknown, and exotic places, adding a touch of mystery and intrigue to the speaker,” explained Brandon Wade, founder of MissTravel.com, the dating website behind the survey.

Israel came in at No. 1 on the list. "Israeli accents conjure up images of the Mediterranean,” Wade added about the region.

We suspect that fascination with the Israeli accent is partly due to the prominence of Israeli actress Gal Gadot, who stars in the new Wonder Woman movie, to be released on June 2. Here is an interview with her, in which her Israeli accent is unmistakeable.

Enjoy! 

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