Bar Refaeli beachwear ads banned in Israel

Pregnant supermodel Bar Refaeli’s new swimwear advertisements have been banned from primetime TV in her native Israel.
Leonardo DiCaprio’s newlywed ex-girlfriend teamed up with Hoodies designers to create the beachwear line, which she announced with a baby bump-bearing Instagram shot while five months pregnant, but censors in the Holy Land feel the TV spots go too far and will offend viewers.
In the ads, filmed when Bar was three months pregnant, she frolics in a skimpy bikini, swaps bikini bottoms in a car, and showers in a thong.
According to The Times of Israel, the officials at the Second Broadcasting Authority for Television and Radio ordered the advertiser to delete scenes featuring the model naked and close-up shots of her bottom – and only then could the promo videos air after 10pm.
Refaeli also fell foul of Israeli censors back in 2014 when they declared her Hoodies lingerie commercial was too hot to handle. That ad, which featured Bar in bed with a muppet, was also yanked from primetime for its “sexual insinuations”.