- Angelina Fares
Angelina Fares ( _ar. انجلينا فارس, born Doaa Fares on
24 March 1989 ) is anIsrael iDruze model. Fares became the firstDruze model when she participated in theMiss Israel beauty contest . The latter made her the center of an affair which caught the eye of both Israeli and the international media.Biography
Fares was born in the village of
Rameh , the firstborn of her family and has six siblings. From the age of six she practicedartistic gymnastics . [ [http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/1,7340,L-3355109,00.html Angelina Fares] Yedioth Ahronoth he icon] She represented Israel in an international competition inRussia and finished tenth among eighty participants.Fares caused great resentment among the Druze community when she decided to compete in the Miss Israel
beauty contest and became a finalist. She received threats for dishonouring her community, which led to the arrest of five people, among them two of her uncles, for planning to murder her. Following those threats and the pressure that was induced on her by the religious Druze leadership, she finally withdrew from the contest and later from her high school.Ebtisam Mara'ana is now directing a documentary film about her life.
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External links
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article1489930.ece Miss Israel finalist quits after family’s honour killing plot] - from Timesonline
* [http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173642642526&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Threats force Druse beauty to bow out of 'Miss Israel'] -The Jerusalem Post
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