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From catwalk to guard duty (Former Contestant on ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Is Now an IDF Recruit)
Times of Israel ^
| March 22, 2012
| HILLARY ZAKEN
Posted on 03/26/2012 6:10:11 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Esther Petrack, made famous in the US as the first observant Jewish contestant on Americas Next Top Model in 2010-2011, is now a soldier in the IDF Armored Corps.
Petrack, born in Jerusalem but raised in Boston, Massachusetts, caused an outcry in American Orthodox circles when her participation in the popular reality show led her to lift her shirt, participate in scantily clad photo shoots, and take part in other nonkosher activities.
Petrack was conscripted into the IDF in December, and is now on the path to becoming a tank instructor.
Her impressions of IDF service? Petrack told Channel 2 that: My nails are no longer what they were, but the girls in the course are nicer than those on the show.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Israel
KEYWORDS: israel

Model Esther Petrack posing on a tank
To: nickcarraway
She is a very Lovely Young Lady!
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:18:12 PM PDT
by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: Red_Devil 232
Cute enough to star in Hunger Games!
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:34:40 PM PDT
by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
03/26/2012 6:47:01 PM PDT
by
moovova
(Poverty is a constitutional right.)
To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Colonel_Flagg; alfa6; colorado tanker; Iris7; Valin
Spankentruppen ping.
(it’s been a while, eh)
To: Anoreth
Ping! No, we’re not converting so you can join the IDF and get into tanks ...
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:32:16 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(Dick Cheney 2012! Our first bionic President! "We can rebuild him ...")
To: PhilDragoo
I missed you on the first ping. ;(
Spankentruppen
To: nickcarraway
love those ladies. years ago there were a few threads dedicated to them...I think they actually came from the IDF website. OMG, there were some beautiful women there.
Beautiful women with a soul and purpose, which kinda makes a difference.
To: the invisib1e hand
We had at least one posting here a year or two back. I found some very impressive IDF women doing a short search.
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posted on
03/26/2012 7:56:21 PM PDT
by
mcshot
(Friends of A. Breitbart concerned by removal of US flags near the Presidential podium.)
To: Professional Engineer
(its been a while, eh) Aye laddie yes it has been:-)
I liked the comment about the girls in the service vs the show, he he
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:10:00 PM PDT
by
alfa6
(...Moderation is for monks RAH)
To: Red_Devil 232
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:16:34 PM PDT
by
panaxanax
(0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
To: panaxanax
Enlisting to try to pick up young IDF chicks isn’t permitted. ;)
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:28:13 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Professional Engineer
Did a search on Spankentruppen, and both of the hits pointed back to FR. So, what’s it mean? Thanks.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:28:53 PM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: mcshot
Check out some American women soldiers. I happen to have a picture of one :-) not available for publication. 5’ 11”, slim as a rail, smile that would make the sun rise, eyes that match her BDUs, wildly curly dark hair neatly tucked under her hat, snuggled up with some cute Iraqi children. Soldiers who try to talk down to the lady find that she’s bigger than they are. Yeah, I confess, she’s my daughter, and happens to be half Jewish as well.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:30:15 PM PDT
by
ArmyTeach
(Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
To: nickcarraway
Her impressions of IDF service? Petrack told Channel 2 that: My nails are no longer what they were, but the girls in the course are nicer than those on the show.
I bet. Good for her. BTTT.
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posted on
03/26/2012 8:38:16 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Time to beat the swords of government tyranny into the plowshares of freedom.)
To: ArmyTeach
You must be very proud. Well done.
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posted on
03/26/2012 9:16:43 PM PDT
by
MattinNJ
To: knittnmom
Spankentruppen = Spank the squad.
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posted on
03/27/2012 2:07:12 AM PDT
by
Jeff Gordon
(Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: the invisib1e hand
The women of less pulchritude do not make it into those threads.
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posted on
03/27/2012 2:09:22 AM PDT
by
Jeff Gordon
(Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Secret Agent Man
“Enlisting to try to pick up young IDF chicks isnt permitted.”
_________________________
I found that out a few seconds after Mrs. panax read my post. :(
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posted on
03/27/2012 5:27:25 AM PDT
by
panaxanax
(0bama >>WORST PRESIDENT EVER.)
To: Jeff Gordon
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posted on
03/27/2012 5:50:34 AM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: ArmyTeach
Good genetics at work. Gotta be proud and sounds like I would melt. May you gain a son-in-law that is like a brother.
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posted on
03/27/2012 5:59:56 AM PDT
by
mcshot
(Friends of A. Breitbart concerned by removal of US flags near the Presidential podium.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
LOL! Thanks nickcarraway.
My nails are no longer what they were, but the girls in the course are nicer than those on the show.
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posted on
03/27/2012 2:32:53 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him)
To: knittnmom
Spankentruppen is an old FReeper Foxhole term.
It started with bicycle mounted machine gun bearing shock troops in an online war game.
That evolved into finding all manner of photos of actual soldiers, from any time or army, riding bicycles while toting arms.
That evolved into bicycles with fixed mounted guns. Yes we found photos.
Then somebody in the dim past posted a picture of the Queen album cover with a girl on a bicycle.
Which leads to...
The current version of Spankentruppen: who are women in any military, especially US and Isreal, who arm toting arms.
On or next to a tank qualifies.
To: knittnmom
Only two hits. Wow, it’s been too long. The list used to be much longer. All still pointed back to FR, however.
To: Professional Engineer
Thanks for the bit of FReeper history!
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posted on
03/27/2012 8:20:20 PM PDT
by
knittnmom
(Save the earth! It's the only planet with chocolate!)
To: knittnmom
To: Tax-chick
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posted on
03/29/2012 10:28:13 PM PDT
by
Yehuda
(http://jewpoint.blogspot.com)
To: Yehuda
Anoreth is a gunner for the US Coast Guard, but it’s not the same as tanks.
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posted on
03/30/2012 4:33:11 AM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The Commie Plot Theory of Everything. Give it a try - you'll be surprised how often it makes sense.)
To: Tax-chick
I wasn’t smiling over Anoreth’s weapons specialty...( : >)
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posted on
03/30/2012 10:59:52 AM PDT
by
Yehuda
(http://jewpoint.blogspot.com)
To: Yehuda
Anoreth is far too short (5’1”) to be a model ... or a gunner in any service but the Coast Guard. Even there, the riot shotgun knocked her on her teakettle.
The Tax-chick household has a great deal of respect for the State of Israel and the IDF.
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posted on
03/30/2012 1:44:28 PM PDT
by
Tax-chick
(The Commie Plot Theory of Everything. Give it a try - you'll be surprised how often it makes sense.)
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