The Miss Israel Beauty Pageant will not be held this year, ending the annual contest that began in 1950. As a result, Israel will not send any contestants to the International Miss Universe pageant in the United States in January.
A move by the organizers of the Israeli contest, quietly announced last week, has elicited a range of reactions from past winners, ranging from lamenting the development to welcoming the event’s demise. We face the criticism of judging by appearances.
Miss Israel 2019 Sela Sherrin told Radio 103FM on Friday:
Of the work that winning the competition brought her, she said, “Later I started lecturing young people. I founded a group of associations dealing with financial education for young people.
“At the end of the day, this contest provides a platform and place for women to lead and initiate, but not necessarily talk about beauty,” Sherlin said.
She said changes could have been made, including removing the swimsuit section of the contest and putting more emphasis on “standing in front of an audience, speaking, leading things, and giving space to the power of women.” Not for beauty or the appearance of a woman. “
Sherlyn, who was on the jury at the previous contest, said changes were made to reflect current attitudes, but admitted they weren’t enough and hadn’t been demonstrated in the contest itself.
2003 contest winner and Channel 12 TV host Sivan Klein supported the cancellation.
In a video post on Channel 12’s website, she welcomed the end of the contest, saying it might have had merit but was outdated.
“Queen Elizabeth is dead and the beauty queen contest is buried,” she said. She said, “Definitely not the time for her to be a queen, but maybe it’s a little better time to be a lady.”
Noting the range of ethnicities of past winners and the achievements some have achieved, she said: Something, you could even say that this competition no longer matters.
The contest is “Shallow. Ask clever women in bikinis clever questions. Put a crown on your head and a ceiling at the same time.”
Rinoa Abargil, who was crowned in 1998 and has since become a lawyer and actress, embraces Orthodox Judaism, which emphasizes the modest appearance of women.
“Women are not bodies or faces. No one in the world has the right to criticize us or rate our weight to determine if it matches what’s going on in the market!” she wrote. rice field. “People change, the world changes. It’s okay to say we were wrong and move on to a world where women continue to run the world, but only for who they are and not for others.” not for the reasons of
The Miss Israel administration said in a statement Tuesday that it “will not participate in this year’s Miss Universe pageant.”
The Israeli contest winner was sent to represent the country in the Miss Universe contest.
Israel hosted last year’s Miss Universe contest in the southern resort city of Eilat.