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This Week in Gal Gadot: Remembering Saba

A teary commemoration of Yom Ha’Shoah

by
Liel Leibovitz
April 16, 2018
Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons
Gal Gadot speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International.Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons
Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons
Gal Gadot speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International.Gage Skidmore, Wikimedia Commons

Last week was Yom Ha’Shoah, and Gal Gadot was remembering her grandfather, Abraham Weiss, who was a teenager in Czechoslovakia during the Holocaust and who lost his entire family to the Nazis.

“He affected me a lot,” Gadot told an interviewer last year. “After all the horrors he’d seen, he was like this damaged bird, but he was always hopeful and positive and full of love. If I was raised in a place where these values were not so strong, things would be different. But it was very easy for me to relate to everything that Wonder Woman stands for.”

Movingly, Gadot took to Instagram and addressed her saba directly:

A post shared by Gal Gadot (@gal_gadot) on Apr 12, 2018 at 1:58am PDT

I’m not crying; you’re crying.

Liel Leibovitz is editor-at-large for Tablet Magazine and a host of its weekly culture podcast Unorthodox and daily Talmud podcast Take One. He is the editor of Zionism: The Tablet Guide.