On March 23, the day of elections to the Israeli parliament, a photograph circulated on social networks in which the world-famous director Quentin Tarantino is preparing to cast his ballot in the ballot box. Judging by the surroundings, it takes place in the Promised Land. We checked whether this happened in reality.

In November 2018, the cult film director for the first time got married, although earlier spokethat he chose a different path - serving cinema. The chosen one of 55-year-old Tarantino is 35-year-old Israeli singer Daniella Pick. When Danielle's pregnancy became known, Tarantino moved together with her to Israel, where, according to him, he felt at home. February 23, 2020 born appeared baby, and since then the couple seems to have been living in the Middle East. The first-born of star parents received Israeli citizenship.

On March 23, 2021, elections to the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, were held. On this day, it spread across social networks, especially Facebook. photo Tarantino holds a ballot in his hand in what looks like an Israeli polling station. The main message of the captions for the photo was: “Tarantino has already voted. What about you?

And although motivational photography has become very popular, some users wondered: is this even possible? According to law Israel's citizenship law, a non-Jew has the right to apply for it only if he has spent three years out of the last five years in the country. Tarantino obviously does not meet this criterion. Moreover, the American had never expressed such a desire.

There were other things that confused attentive users: Tarantino’s jacket, which was uncharacteristic for a relatively hot day, and the absence of a medical mask.

A simple photo search via Google, conducted by site journalists mako.co.il, gives the answer to this riddle - we have Photoshop in front of us:

The photo was taken in 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival, where premiere The master’s latest film to date is “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.” Author original photo from Shutterstock - taniavolobueva.

Interestingly, the fake photo first appeared on the Internet not now. On March 2, 2020, another Knesset election was held—early ones. And then this funny photo spread on Facebook, although Quentin Tarantino had just moved to Israel at that time.

Someone might have a question: does an American director even vote? The answer, apparently, is yes. According to his colleague Michael Moore, Tarantino somehow admitted, who had never done this before, but was inspired by watching Moore's politically sensitive documentary Fahrenheit 9/11. And since then he has not missed the chance to fulfill his civic duty. True, so far American.