From Blorit to Ponytail: Israeli Culture Reflected in Popular Hairstyles

Oz Almog

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ISRAEL'S DAILY, HA'ARETZ HAS RECENTLY been featuring Hanoch Piven's collage portraits of international celebrities and Israeli politicians. Piven uses everyday objects in creating his portraits and although one of his more striking images consists of little more than two wads of white cotton wool "hair," every Israeli recognizes it immediately as a caricature of the country's first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion. (See figure 1) An election poster of the now-defunct ultra-nationalist Tehiya Party featured the silhouette of a young man bearing a flag. What unmistakably identified this young man as a proud Sabra—a native-born Israeli—was his tousled hair, but, even more so, his blorit, that unmistakable, unruly, forelock, falling over the forehead and catching the breeze.

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