Gal Gadot received the ADL’s International Leadership Award last night, and opened her speech in an interesting way:
“My name is Gal. I’m a mother, a wife, a sister, a daughter, an actress. I am Israeli and I’m Jewish. I’m going to say it again: My name is Gal, and I’m Jewish. Isn’t it crazy that just saying that, just expressing such a simple fact about who I am, feels like a controversial statement? But sadly, this is where we’re at today.”
Later on in the speech, the movie star said that she has long tried to avoid talking politics “because no one wants to hear celebrities talking about political issues, but also I regarded myself as a citizen of the world… I never thought of myself as being where I came from; it was an aspect of who I am, but it didn’t define me. And then Oct. 7 happened.”
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