Likud blasted for photoshopped skullcaps on heads of soldiers in campaign photo

Likud is taking flak for a campaign image that photoshopped skullcaps onto the heads of Israeli soldiers in a famous historic photo.

The symbolic photo, known as “The Ink Flag,” shows Avaraham Adan, later a major general, climbing an improvised Israeli flag after a victory in the Eilat area during Israel’s Independence War.

Likud’s image put a blue and white yarmulke on Adan’s head as well as on that of an onlooker. “We’re always proud of you,” it says. “Likud — home of the religious Zionists.”

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Adan’s daughter Netta Dor tells Army Radio: “I’ve heard of life after death but not of conversion.” She adds: “Perhaps that side [the religious] feels a bit left out of the formation of the state. Now that we’ve finished other annexations, maybe we’re annexing parts of history too.”