Religion, politics and ethnicity have been among the themes to generate tension between contestants in the
Big Brother house during the fourth season. Yekutiel "Kuti" Sebbag refused to eat food cooked by Avivit Bar-Zohar one
Sabbath eve, leading Eran Tartakovsky to call Sebbag a whiny hypocrite but also leading Bar-Zohar to go on a fast on account of preventing a Jew from eating on the Sabbath. Controversial remarks made by Saar Szekely in reference to Israeli policy in the
West Bank drew criticism from the
Israeli settlement of
Ariel, which issued a statement regretting that
Big Brother had offered Szekely a platform for his views. Various
Facebook groups called Szekely a traitor and demanded his removal from the show. ==Housemates==