Linor Fakhima, known as a former contestant on Israel’s “The Race to a Million” and now a content creator focused on home, motherhood, organization and cleaning under the name “Lini Kleani,” set off a heated online debate after posting an Instagram video criticizing teenage girls wearing thong swimwear at the beach. The post, shared on her personal account with 212,000 followers, drew thousands of divided comments.
Fakhima said she had uploaded a Friday beach story showing her son, with girls in revealing clothing visible in the background. She argued that not everything should be normalized. “It’s just degradation, there is no other word,” she said, adding that she did not want her daughter to copy what she sees if “everyone” is wearing a thong.
She framed her criticism as a question of boundaries and self-worth rather than control. “Why not teach our daughters, and I’m really not talking from a place of control, of ‘forbidden, forbidden, forbidden,’ but from a place of boundaries, self-love, and added value, that the more naked the body is, the more exposure it should not get,” she said.
In the same video, Fakhima intensified her language, saying, “I do not want her to be in a thong at the beach!! I do not want all the men to drool over her! I do not want everyone to be raping her with their eyes because my daughter is naked at the beach!!! I do not want it to be like this, I want it to be fun to go to the beach and not feel like I am at some sex party, God, am I right??” She later clarified in another story that she had photographed her son and was reacting to what she called a “terrifying phenomenon of nudity,” not targeting any specific girl. She added that she has no intention of photographing half-naked girls at the beach and said she was speaking for many mothers, hoping one day “there will be change.”
