Israeli cartoonists highlight President Donald Trump's orange-ness as much as their American counterparts do — but the slant of their drawings is decidedly local.
In advance of Trump's visit to the country next week, comic artist and political cartoonist Uri Fink says every detail of the president's itinerary has been scrutinized and argued over by the Israeli press. And at this point, it seems Israelis across the political spectrum have something to worry about.
Like Trump's interest in visiting the Western Wall. It's one of the holiest places on earth for Jews and it sits adjacent to one of the holiest places in the world for Muslims, the al Aqsa Mosque compound. "He wanted to coordinate it with Israeli authorities," says Fink. "The US embassy said you can’t do that. The Western Wall is part of the Palestinian territory. The US Embassy didn’t want him to take anyone to Western Wall."
Fink’s imagined solution: take Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli for the visit.
In the cartoon, Refaeli purrs in Hebrew: "I can't resist a 70-year-old American with a big mouth." (In real life, the supermodel tagged along with rocker Steven Tyler during his recent visit to Israel.)
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