Hollywood Star Gal Gadot Doubles Down on Israel Support
The granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor, “Wonder Woman” star Gal Gadot is refusing to back down in her support of her native Israel.
Gadot, who, as an Israeli citizen, served the mandatory two years in the Israel Defense Forces, said during a recent interview with Variety she rarely speaks out on current events because, she asked rhetorically, “Who cares about the celebrity talking about politics?”
Breaking News. Spirit-Filled Stories. Subscribe to Charisma on YouTube now!
“I’m an artist,” she explained. “I want to entertain people. I want to bring hope and be a beacon of light whenever I say anything about the world.”
The 39-year-old celebrity continued, “But, on Oct. 7, when people were abducted from their homes, from their beds, men, women, children, elderly, Holocaust survivors, were going through the horrors of what happened that day, I could not be silent. I was shocked by the amount of hate, by the amount of how much people think they know when they actually have no idea, and also by how the media is not fair many times. So I had to speak up.”
In 2023, about a month after the Oct. 7 attack on Israel, Gadot and her husband, Yaron Varsano, helped organize a screening of IDF footage of atrocities carried out by Hamas villains who terrorized Israelis.
The screening, put together by Gadot and Oscar-winning Israeli director Guy Nattiv, was produced for a group of Hollywood elites. It comprised of 47 minutes of footage collected by IDF members.
When Hamas first attacked the Holy Land, Gadot, for her part, unabashedly stood with the Jewish state. She wrote in an Instagram post, “I stand with Israel[.] You should too. The world cannot sit on the fence when these horrific acts of terror are happening!”
She’s remained steadfast in her advocacy for Israel.
“I’m not a hater,” Gadot said. “I’m a grandchild of a Holocaust survivor who came to Israel and established his family from scratch after his entire family was erased in Auschwitz. And on the other side of my family, I’m eighth-generation Israeli. I’m an indigenous person of Israel.”
To read the full story, please visit our content partners at Faithwire.
Reprinted with permission from faithwire.com. Copyright © 2025 The Christian Broadcasting Network Inc. All rights reserved.
Join Charisma Magazine Online to follow everything the Holy Spirit is doing around the world!
