During the rustic outdoor ceremony, popular Israeli singer and “The Voice” Israel coach Shlomi Shabbat performed his song “The Beginning of the World” as Refaeli walked down the aisle to the chuppah, according to the Israeli websites Mako and Walla!
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And yet Thursday night’s event has stoked a bitter political spat between the country’s transport minister and the head of Israel’s civil aviation authority.
“The ceremony was so magical, filled with close friends and family and a few notable names and models”, a source told E!
“The locations was stunning”.
The ceremony concluded with Ezra – who started dating Bar in 2012 – stepping on a glass to seal the union as Bruno Mars” “Marry Me’ played. Refaeli and later changed into another Chloé dress for the reception, which featured a giant, draped tent lit up by purple spotlights and adorned with icicle lights.
The wedding took place days after the model and her then-groom-to-be had a request to close the airspace over the venue overturned. Although on Sunday, Transportation Minister Israel Katz instructed aviation officials to keep the space open, the Civil Aviation Authority published a directive on Tuesday limiting aircraft operation. She actually planned to have drones, helicopters and hot air balloons to control the skies above the hotel to make wedding photos and provide security.
In the end, the skies stayed open to all air traffic during Thursday’s wedding, the Jerusalem Post reported.
It’s Refaeli’s second marriage. When she was in her late teens, she Wednesday Arik Weinstein in 2003.
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Refaeli was the subject of public outrage in the past because she did not carry out her two years of mandatory military service, engaging in a quickie wedding instead.
