Rana Raslan
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Rana Raslan ( Hebrew רנא רסלאן ; * 1977 in Israel ) is a former Israeli beauty queen .
Life
Raslan grew up with several siblings in a secular family in Haifa . In 1999 she was elected Miss Israel as the first Arab Israeli woman . Your election caused a sensation in Israel and the Arab states. Jewish nationalists criticized that a woman of Arab origin could not represent Israel because Israel was a Jewish state. Islamists, on the other hand, accused her of being un-Islamic because she wore a bikini like everyone else during the beauty pageant. And in the Arab world, too, their choice as a political move by the Israeli government to use Raslan as a “symbol of a peace that does not exist” has been criticized.
As Miss Israel, she competed in the 1999 Miss Universe election in Trinidad and Tobago .
Web links
- Dangerously attractive , Zeit Online 20/1999
- Rana Raslan , Der Spiegel 22/1999
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| SURNAME | Raslan, Rana |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli Beauty Queen (1999) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1977 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Israel |