Angelina Fares ( ar, انجلينا فارس, he, אנג'לינה פארס) is an

Israeli Druze Israeli Druze or Druze Israelis ( ar, الدروز الإسرائيليون; he, דְּרוּזִים יִשְׂרְאֵלִים) are an ethnoreligious minority among the Arab citizens of Israel. In 2019, there were 143,000 Druze people living ...

model and beauty pageant contestant. She was a finalist in

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2007.

Biography

Fares was born in the village of

Rameh Rameh ( ar, الرامة; he, רָמָה; alternatively spelled ar-Rame or ar-Rama) is an Arab town in the Northern District of Israel. Located east of Nahf and Karmiel, in it had a population of . Over half of the inhabitants are Christians, ...

, the firstborn of a Druze family as one of seven siblings. From the age of six she practiced

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.Angelina Fares
Yedioth Ahronoth She represented Israel in an international competition in

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and finished tenth among eighty participants. Fares caused great resentment among the Druze community when she decided to compete in the Miss Israel

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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 put on her by the Druze religious leadership, she finally withdrew from the contest and later from her high school. Her sister, Jamila "Maya" Fares, was murdered in 2011, many suspect by members of the Druze community.

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"Threats force Druse beauty to bow out of 'Miss Israel'"
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