Rina Mor

Rina Mor
Beauty pageant titleholder
Born Rina Messinger
February 16, 1956 (1956-02-16) (age 56)
Kiryat Tiv'on, Israel
Hair color Brown
Eye color Blue
Title(s) Malkat HaYofi 1976
Miss Universe 1976

Rina Mor (Hebrew: רינה מור‎; surname originally Messinger, now Mor-Goder; born February 16, 1956) is the first Israeli Miss Universe winner, having been crowned on July 11, 1976, after having been Miss Israel.

Biography

She is from Kiryat Tiv'on, near Haifa. Rina Mor-Goder became a lawyer and mother of two daughters.

Upon her proclamation as the winner, she remarked, "I'm no politician. I think my being Miss Universe will show people that Israel has another side, not only war."[1] Extensive security precautions were taken as she began her world tour with a stop in Bangkok. The first Miss Israel ever to win the crown, Messinger answered the contest question as tow which country would she most like to visit? Her immediate response: "An Arab one."

After her reign as Miss Universe, Rina Messinger stayed in New York City, where she worked in Public Relations for the Jewish Agency and the Bonds. After four years she returned to Israel and continued working in Public Relations for a big business company. There she met her soon-to-be husband, a very successful businessman. They had 2 daughters.[2]

In 1991, she decided to fulfill her dream and started studying law in the Tel-Aviv University. After completing her bachelors degree with honours, she and her family left for the Netherlands, where her husband had his business, and Rina completed her Masters degree, specializing in family law. In 2002 after six years in the Netherlands, the family returned home to Israel, Messinger is a family lawyer in Tel Aviv, working on her doctorate and appearing every week in the morning show of Channel 10, where she gives advice in family law. In 1981, she wrote a book on her experience as Miss Universe.[2]

In 2005, she was voted the 179th-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.[3]

References

  1. ^ WebCite query result
  2. ^ a b "finale 1976". pageantopolis.com. http://www.pageantopolis.com/international/Universe_1976_finale.htm. Retrieved July 7, 2011. 
  3. ^ גיא בניוביץ' (June 20, 1995). "הישראלי מספר 1: יצחק רבין – תרבות ובידור". Ynet. http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3083171,00.html. Retrieved July 10, 2011. 

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