Sunday, October 13, 2013

President Obama Shakes Hands With Miss Israel 2013, Yityish Aynaw

Yityish Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013,
Meets U.S. President Barack Obama

John Malveaux of www.MusicUNTOLD.com writes:

2013 Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, named Obama as one of her heroes, seeing the similarities between them: “Like him, I was also raised by my grandmother. Nothing was handed to me on a plate and like him I also had to work very hard and long to achieve things in my life.” Clearly, what is being evoked here is the symbolic rhetoric of pulling oneself up by their bootstraps— that oft-told tale of immigrants being able to succeed if they try hard enough, a foundational element of the ethos of the United States.
 
Aynaw was named Miss Israel 2013, the first black winner of that title. Like other Ethiopians of the Jewish faith, Aynaw came to live in Israel as an aliyah immigrant. She had been orphaned at a young age in her birth country before she moved to Israel with her grandparents. 
 
John Malveaux

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