The US-based organizers of the Miss Israel pageant were planning to appoint a winner of their choosing this year without the involvement of independent judges or holding a full-on pageant, the current ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Melanie Shiraz competing in the 2025 Miss Universe beauty pageant (photo credit: Courtesy Melanie Shiraz) For the last two years, ...

Danielle Yablonka was crowned Miss Universe Israel 2026 by the Miss Israel Organization on Friday, after the pageant has recently been marred by controversy over the competition's legitimacy. The ...

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. The US-based organizers of the Miss Israel pageant were planning to appoint a winner of their choosing this year without the involvement of ...

For the last two years, the Miss Israel competition has been held in Miami, rather than Israel, and encouraged non-Israeli Jews to apply. The next Miss Israel may not be Israeli and may be part of a ...