The #BottleCapChallenge hits Israel

The latest social media craze is of people performing a circular martial arts move to knock the lid clean off the top of a water bottle. It was started last month by taekwondo instructor Farabi Davletchin’s impressive drop-kick and spawned thousands of imitations from students, stunt artists — and less dextrous Israeli politicians. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who recently returned to politics, was filmed revolving on the spot and knocking his lid off with just a finger, before addressing his political rival: “Bibi, drink something. Relax. We’ve just gotten started.” Meanwhile, opposition leader Yair Lapid opted for a series of acrobatics without actually touching the bottle.

Undefeated Israeli Mixed Martial Arts fighter Natan Levy, who now lives in Las Vegas, delivered a kick so powerful that he sent the bottle flying upon colleagues training next to him.

Ehud Barak and Yair Lapid’s challenges (above and left) were complemented by a cartoon from The Mossad, a satirical Twitter account, showing Iran’s Ayatollah Khamanei dislodging the cap from a bottle of enriched uranium.

trick in her video — although the swig of cranberry juice she took immediately afterwards was not to her taste.

Likud’s Sahrren Haskel, the secondyoungest member of the Knesset at 36, came closest to replicating the original taekwondo kick