Bar Refaeli poses with Michael Phelps, Rafael Nadal
Sports Illustrated pairs the Israeli supermodel with the Olympic swimmer and tennis star in a new photo shoot
We know she looks good in a swimsuit, but Bar Refaeli can handle a basketball and a tennis racquet, too.
The Israeli supermodel is currently getting an assist on the Sports Illustrated website from NBA player Chris Paul and six-time French Open winner Rafael Nadal, all to promote the magazine’s just-released swimsuit edition.
An online photo gallery titled “Bar and the Boys” also features Refaeli with Olympic champion Michael Phelps — who, like Refaeli, knows a thing or two about a swimsuit. The duo wisely left their goggles and swim caps in the locker room.
She died more than four decades ago, but Leah Goldberg remains a magnetic and enigmatic figure: Israel’s most beloved poet, a powerful woman who lived with her mother and never married, who reinvented herself from the ashes of World War I through her magical writing.
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