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Israeli town names cinema for 'Wonder Woman' Gadot
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Actress Gal Gadot arrives for the world premiere of Warner Bros. Pictures' 'Justice League,' November 13, 2017 at the Dolby Theater in Hollywood, California. (AFP/Robyn Beck)
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cinema in northern Israel is to be named after Israeli-born Hollywood celeb Gal Gadot, star of the blockbuster hit "Wonder Woman", the town of Upper Nazareth said Tuesday.
"We are going to name the new cinema after Gal Gadot, an Israeli actress who brings honor to this country," municipal spokeswoman Orna Yosef told AFP.
"This is a message for our young people because Gal Gadot is an example of success, who has shown that dreams can be attained."
Gadot, 32, won the Miss Israel beauty pageant in 2004 aged 18.
After her two-year compulsory military service she went into modelling and then films, breaking into Hollywood with a role in 2009's "Fast and Furious."
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She now lives in Los Angeles.
Last year, Lebanon and Tunisia banned "Wonder Woman" because of Gadot's Israeli army service.
The Gal Cinema, which will have two screens, will open officially on Wednesday with a showing of Israeli director Eran Riklis's thriller "Shelter".
Upper Nazareth was founded in 1956 adjacent to biblical Nazareth, the largest Arab city in Israel.
Upper Nazareth's population of 50,000 is 80 percent Jewish, with the remainder made up of Muslim and Christian Arabs.
Israeli daily Yediot Aharanot said that cinema closures in the area meant that until now residents were obliged to make a round-trip of around 80 kilometers (50 miles) to see a film in the coastal city of Haifa.
