Rana Raslan

Rana Raslan (* in Israel) is a former Israeli beauty queen.

Raslan grew up with several siblings in a secular family in Haifa. She was elected as the first Israeli Arab Miss Israel 1999. Your choice sparked a sensation of Israel and the Arab states. Jewish nationalists criticized the fact that a woman of Arab descent could not represent Israel because Israel is a Jewish state. Islamists accused her un-Islamic behavior, since she had worn during the beauty contest like any other a bikini. And also in the Arab world their choice as a political move by the Israeli government was criticized for using Raslan as a " symbol of a peace that does not exist ."

When Miss Israel 1999, she appeared at the Miss Universe in Trinidad and Tobago.