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Oren Hazan is fucking hilarious.Off-topic, but seeing as how this is probably the thread with the most Israelis on it at the moment - are there any genuine Israeli contenders for lolcow status? I don't mean yordim and such like Yaniv, but people that are exclusively within the Israeli cultural orbit. Amir Hetsroni is the only one that immediately jumps to mind for me, but I haven't kept up with him for the last couple years, and he seems a bit too self-aware.
Hazan started his political career with a bang. He produced a Godfather-themed ad for the 2015 Likud primary in which he appeared with his father, former MK Yehiel Hazan who was kicked out for double-voting in the plenum and then trying to hide the computer that revealed his deed. The ad featured the Godfather theme music, and Hazan-the-dad speaking in a Brando-esque voice telling his son to avenge the family name.
Bullying the disabled: As number nine might indicate, Hazan is pretty sensitive about his father’s short-lived parliamentary career. He probably found the worst way to express it in November 2015. MK Karin Elharar (Yesh Atid) has muscular dystrophy, and while she is usually capable of pushing the buttons necessary in order to vote, she was having trouble and asked Meretz MK Esawi Frej, who was sitting next to her, for assistance. Hazan began shouting at Frej that he double-voted, Elharar burst into tears, and many lawmakers, including Netanyahu, approached her and comforted her. Netanyahu later rebuked Hazan. But that wasn’t enough for Hazan – days later, during another vote, Hazan shouted to Elharar: “Do you need Esawi to help you?” The Knesset Ethics Committee suspended Hazan for a month in response to his behavior.
Hazan is probably best-known in Israel for the findings of a Channel 2 report that came out shortly after the 20th Knesset was sworn-in, that he managed a casino in Burgas, Bulgaria, pimping prostitutes and providing crystal meth to Israeli tourists, and that he used crystal meth himself. Memorably, a stripper from a club across the street from the casino called him “Big Boss Oren"
There's far more, he's amazing.
Other than that eh. A famous singer, Eyal Golan, got a really bad tattoo.