On Sunday night, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu went to a soccer game and pointed. This simple act set the internet alight with laughter. Users across social media created memes mocking the prime minister as he took a few hours away from the embattled world of politics to watch Israel's national team beat Bosnia-Herzegovina in the Euro 2016 match at Sammy Ofer stadium in Haifa. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by ראש ממשלת ישראל. Prior to the match, Netanyahu, who is an avid doodler, posted a drawing of a soccer player next to a goal with the caption 'Good luck tonight to our team!' (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); The drawing was quickly ridiculed by a couple of netizens. Twitter user Lucy responded by drawing a player holding up an empty plate and wrote 'Good luck tonight to our hungry citizens!' תגובתי לברכה של @netanyahu לנבחרת הכדורגל. pic.twitter.com/rUbwYY8lY1 — Lucy (@0xB17) November 16, 2014 In another response to the drawing, Facebook user Orit Kopel grimly dressed up a player as an ISIS terrorist using a beheaded captive's head as the soccer ball. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); by Orit Kopel. Channel 2 News's political correspondent Amit Segal later tweeted 'Bibi at the stadium. Let's announce the elections and get it over with.' ביבי באיצטדיון. בואו נכריז על בחירות וזהו — Amit Segal עמית סגל (@amit_segal) November 16, 2014 Artist Amir Schiby wrote 'Hail caesar!' along with a picture of Netanyahu, wearing a laurel wreath, overlooking a bloody gladiator arena. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by Amir Schiby. Inspired by pop culture, Rafael Saban put Netanyahu into the famous E.T. scene, while Idan Birenberg went classic with Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam. Gal Tadmor went trashy with Kim Kardashian's Internet-breaking buttocks. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by Rafael Saban. Lastly, Facebook funny guy Ivgeni Zarubinski portrayed Netanyahu casting a finger-shaped shadow over the upper lip of Minister of Finance Yair Lapid, who was also at the stadium wearing a blue and white cowboy hat. It was mocking another viral hit that happened after Netanyahu inadvertently yet notoriously cast a shadow over German Chancellor Angela Merkel's face during her visit to Jerusalem earlier this year. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk')); Post by Ivgeni Zarubinski.
