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Leaving little to the imagination — and looking ridiculously sexy — in some sort of black lace body stocking thing, supermodel Bar Refaeli tweeted a pic of her gorgeous self on the set of her latest photo shoot in London on Monday.

This is definitely worthy of an Olympic gold medal.

Via: TMZ.com

Gymnast Alex Shatilov will be in the finals of the mens all around, as he tries to win Israel’s first ever medal in gymnastics, and the country’s first medal in 2012.

Three of Israel’s sailors will compete in the afternoon, including medal hopefuls Shahar Tzuberi and Lee Kurzits. While these aren’t medal races, it’s a great chance to see the top windsurfers at work.

Remember: Event times are listed as they appear in London — please make the right adjustments (Israelis add 2 hours; US East Coast residents subtract 5).

Here’s the Wednesday schedule:

• Swimming: Yaakov Tomarkin will swim the 200m backstroke; qualifying heats at 10:39-11:04am, semifinals 7:48-7:57pm. Gal Nevo will swim the 200m medley; qualifying heats at 11:47am-12:29pm, semifinals 8:37-8:47pm.
• Sailing: Shahar Tzuberi and Lee Kurzits will take their RS:X windsurfers out for races 3 and 4, while Nofar Edelman enters races 5 and 6. All three will sail between 12-6pm.
• In the finals: Alex Shatilov, (gymnastics, men’s all around), 4:30pm.

Source: Times of Israel 

Three years after the shooting spree in a center for GLBT youth, in which two people were killed and six were wounded, a center for gays who were subjected to violence was launched this evening. The center will receive complaints, in hopes of coping more efficiently with hate crimes against GLBT. (Gilad Morag)

Source: Ynetnews.com

Gal Gadot like you’ve never seen her!

Passengers aboard an Easy Jet flight from London to Israel last Friday evening held a minute of silence for the slain Israeli athletes and coaches of the 1972 Olympics, while the aircraft flew over Munich.

The International Olympic Committee rebuffed calls from around the world to hold a minute of silence during the opening ceremonies last week in London, however when passengers aboard the commercial flight heading towards Israel realized they would be flying over Munich – the site of the 1972 massacre – they requested a moment of silence aboard the aircraft.

The flight’s captain agreed to the request, asking passengers to spend a minute in silence in honor of the 11 athletes and coaches killed by Palestinian terrorists.

Instead of holding a moment of silence during the opening ceremonies, which reportedly would have lead to a  boycott by Arab states, the IOC honored the murdered members of Israel’s delegation to the 72′ Games inside the Olympic village, last Monday.

Source: Algemeiner

Lisa Burnett, right, is one of several University of Manitoba students taking part in an archeological dig of Bronze Age settlements near Tel Aviv, Israel

There are no high rises. Certainly no condos. But students from Manitoba are in Israel this month exploring some of the earliest cities on Earth.

Working on their hands and knees, they use picks, trowels and brooms to clear away the dirt at an archaeological site located at Tell es-Safi, south of the main highway connecting Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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