Miss Israel 'very excited' to meet Obama

[theworldismine13]

Miss Israel 'very excited' to meet Obama
Miss Israel 'very excited' to meet Obama | JPost | Israel News

The newly crowned Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, said on Wednesday that she believed she had been invited to meet US President Barack Obama next week because they were both the first people of African heritage to attain their respective titles.

Asked by The Jerusalem Post why she thought she had been invited to the state dinner being hosted by President Shimon Peres next Thursday, Aynaw replied that she was “the first black Miss Israel to be chosen and [Obama] is the first black American president. These go together.”

Aynaw, 21, a former IDF officer, became the first Ethiopian-born Israeli to win the pageant on February 27.

She said she was “very excited” about the prospect of meeting a leader whose success she cited as a “notable influence on her life.”

Obama “is someone who accomplished things by dint of his hard work,” she said.

Aynaw told the Post that she “didn’t believe that this was happening” when she received a personal dinner invitation from “President Shimon Peres himself” on Tuesday.

Calling the opportunity to dine with the US and Israeli presidents “wonderful,” Aynaw said that as a young immigrant, she “never thought that such a thing could happen” to her.

During the Miss Israel competition, Aynaw told the judges, “It’s important that a member of the Ethiopian community win the competition for the first time. There are many different communities of many different colors in Israel, and it’s important to show that to the world.”

Both of Aynaw’s parents died in Ethiopia, and she came to Israel when she was 12.

Acclimating to Israel was difficult at first, Aynaw said, but she picked up the language quickly with the help of a friend. She studied at Kfar Hanoar Hadati (the “Religious Youth Village”) near Kfar Hassidim, southeast of Haifa.

Still not married, Aynaw now lives in Netanya – where her grandmother also resides – and has been working as a saleswoman at a clothing store since her discharge from the army.

During the competition, Aynaw cited the slain American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. as one of her heroes.

“He fought for justice and equality, and that’s one of the reasons I’m here: I want to show that my community has many beautiful qualities that aren’t always represented in the media,” she said.

 

[88m3]

Black Excellence!


inb4 racists

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

she won miss israel with those teeth?

 

[thekingsmen]

Though very beautiful...her winning the pageant was a plight to her Ethiopian Community in Israel to stay in line and to make the view to the world "See we have Black People winning beauty contests even though our policies are racist".

 

[thekingsmen]

Even though a black queen won a contest in Israel won't make me respect Apartheid or Zionism.

 

[Torrential]

take the pressure off of the sterilization of Ethiopian women and the incidents in the cities where black people were attacked in the street and property was damaged. If the Israelis are good at anything besides ethnic cleansing it's propaganda.

 

[Gallo]

Shalom

 

[88m3]

 

[Blackking]

umm, there has to be better pictures than this.

Anyway, this is like someone saying they love you while they rape you..... or force sterilize you while calling you a n1gga. I'm sure she knows what it is.

 

[88m3]

@Blackking

Yeah, she shouldn't have won!


I can imagine the outrage if a black woman never won.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

can we see the other contestants?

 

[88m3]

can we see the other contestants?

Here's 2012, just so you know they're women.

 

[Blackking]

@Blackking

Yeah, she shouldn't have won!


I can imagine the outrage if a black woman never won.

i don't really know how people think over there, or what gets them hype.

 

[88m3]

i don't really know how people think over there, or what gets them hype.

Nah, I'm speaking generally.




"Ethiopian Jews are 8% percent of the population, why hasn't there been a Queen yet!"

 

[88m3]

Israel