Airheaded model to convince the West that Israel is 'like us'?

At Haaretz (where else?), leftist Aluf Benn claims that Israel is trying to use airheaded model Bar Refaeli, whose picture was on the front of Sports Illustrated's bathing suit issue last week, to soften its image abroad. According to Benn, the effort has failed. Israel's public-relations machine has tried for many years to market Israel as a villa in the jungle, a Western frontier outpost