Sacha Baron Cohen's inspiration for Who Is America?'s Erran Morad revealed?

The National

Matan Gavish, a New York City Krav Maga trainer and former officer for a special-ops unit in the Israeli Defense Force, appears to be a dead ringer for Cohen's Israeli military expert character. "The similarities are uncanny: the jawline, the hair, the eyebrows, the dress and the accent," as Felicity Campbell points out. Gavish says he didn't see the similarities, but  “everyone around me did … which I thought was pretty funny.”