Members of a Jewish ultra-nationalist group have urged the Israeli model Bar Refaeli not to marry her non-Jewish boyfriend, the American actor Leonardo DiCaprio. "Your grandmother and her grandmother did not dream that one of their descendants would one day remove the family's future generations from the Jewish people," Baruch Marzel wrote in a letter on behalf of the Lehava organization, which is dedicated to preventing assimilation. “Assimilation has forever been one of the enemies of the Jewish people,” Marzel writes, adding: "Come to your senses, look forward and back too – and not only the present. Don't marry Leonardo DiCaprio, don't harm the future generations."
The call comes after DiCaprio hinted in interviews earlier this month he was thinking of getting married and starting a family. Refaeli recently denied rumors that she was engaged to the actor after wearing a ring on her ring finger.
The model was born in 1985 to an Israeli Jewish family in Hod HaSharon. In 2007, she caused some controversy when it became known that she had married a family acquaintance and divorced him soon after in order to avoid military service in the Israel Defense Forces.
According to the 'Jewish Chronicle', Marzel has a record of violence in Israel, including assaults on a Palestinian, an Israeli police officer and the journalist Uri Avnery. He has also declared “holy war” against homosexuals in Israel..
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