{"id":40494,"date":"2017-12-28T12:25:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T18:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=40494"},"modified":"2017-12-28T22:49:51","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T04:49:51","slug":"everyone-on-google-was-searching-for-gal-gadot-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/everyone-on-google-was-searching-for-gal-gadot-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone on Google was searching for Gal Gadot this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By BEN SALES&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>(JTA) \u2014 Is Gal Gadot the most famous Israeli ever?<\/p>\n<p>Judging by 2017\u2019s top Google searches, the answer might be yes. Gadot was the sixth-most searched person worldwide, and the third-most searched actor.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_29244\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29244\" class=\"wp-image-29244 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot-1024x717.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/210;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29244\" class=\"wp-image-29244 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot-300x210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Gal-Gadot-1024x717.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-29244\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gal Gadot poses for photographers during the premiere of the movie &#8220;Fast and Furious 5&#8221; IN 2011 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Buda Mendes\/LatinContent\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The 32-year-old, who was born and raised in Israel and served in the Israel Defense Forces, starred in two movies this year: her breakout film \u201cWonder Woman\u201d and the ensemble superhero flick \u201cJustice League.\u201d The movies were the #2 and #5 most-searched films, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Google didn\u2019t say how many searches each term got, but searches for Gadot peaked worldwide the week of June 5, when \u201cWonder Woman\u201d premiered in the U.S. There were also spikes the week after she hosted Saturday Night Live in October, and the week in November when \u201cJustice League\u201d had its U.S. premiere.<\/p>\n<p>Where is Gadot most popular? Not Israel, her home country, nor the United States, where she lives now. She was most popular in the Philippines, where she was the second-most searched person overall. Other southeast Asian countries also have Gadot-mania: Both Singapore and Malaysia searched for Gadot far more than the average country. So did Puerto Rico and Costa Rica. In the United States, she barely cracked the top 10, coming in at number 10.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, Gadot ranked below disgraced \u201cToday\u201d host Matt Lauer (#1); actress-turned-British princess bride Meghan Markle (#2) and, surprisingly, Nadia Toffa (#3), an Italian TV presenter who erroneously reported a dangerous nuclear experiment was planned.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Gadot came in above First Lady Melania Trump (#7) as well as Michael Flynn (#9), the former national security adviser who pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI.<\/p>\n<p>But the funniest data point on Gadot might be one of the top searches related to her name: \u201cgal gadot husband shirt.\u201d People typing in that term are probably looking for an Instagram post by Gadot\u2019s husband, real estate developer Yaron Versano, in which he\u2019s wearing a shirt comparing \u201cYour wife\u201d (a generic ladies\u2019 room symbol) to \u201cmy wife\u201d (a drawing of Wonder Woman). In the photo, Gadot is sitting next to him with a huge grin on her face.<\/p>\n<p>Gadot isn\u2019t the only Jew to make Google\u2019s top 10 lists. Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul accused of sexual abuse by 90 women, was number four on the list of most-searched people.<\/p>\n<p>However, despite persistent internet rumors \u2014 and despite having been photographed in 2005 wearing a \u201cChai Maintenance\u201d t-shirt \u2014 it bears repeating that royal-to-be Meghan Markle is not Jewish.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Everyone%20on%20Google%20was%20searching%20for%20Gal%20Gadot%20this%20year\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7139,26,27],"tags":[9115,9114,4493,8781,8790,8795,8788,7736],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40496,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40494\/revisions\/40496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}