He is the greatest Israeli soldier the world has ever known

Updated Sep 19, 2026 at 04:28PM EDT by Cesar Acuña.

Added Sep 18, 2026 at 10:09PM EDT by Cesar Acuña.

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He is the greatest Israeli soldier the world has ever known is a quote from the trailer for the 2009 comedy film You Don't Mess with the Zohan, starring Adam Sandler as an IDF super soldier. Arround late 2025 and early 2026, X users and TikTokers began using the clip from the trailer as means to mock post percieved to be Spiritually Israeli or in support of the Israel state.

Origin

On May 1, 2008, the trailer for the comedy film You Don't Mess with the Zohan, produced by Columbia Pictures and starring Adam Sandler as the title character, was uploaded to YouTube. The trailer begins with the voiceover of a narrator saying "He is the greatest Israeli soldier the world has ever known" (shown below). Just before the outbreak of the 2023 Gaza war, the video gained over 1.7 millon views.^[1]

On December 24, 2025, @sandlerverse, an Out of Context account devoted to Adam Sandler films, posted the clip on X amassing over 3 millon views and 5,000 likes.

You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) pic.twitter.com/kK5lJKoFJ2

— No Context Sandlerverse (@sandlerverse) December 25, 2025

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On December 29, 2025, TikTok user @cia.alex.mason uploaded a clip from the trailer with the caption "I watch Stranger Things an i think it's in the top 5 shows of all time". Over nine months, the video amassed over 143,000 plays and 10,500 likes.