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Israel

Hollywood Actors Tour Israel

21 may 2012

I'm up on the historical Masada Mountain top, in Southern Israel, where I've joined a group of Hollywood stars, touring the country. These actors from various well-known TV shows have come here for one week in order to tour Israel and learn about its' identity. The week-long tour of Israel was led by America's Voices in Israel, in collaboration with Israel's Ministry of Diaspora and Public Diplomacy along with the Ministry of Tourism. The goal of the trip was to expose the Hollywood community to a wide-range of cultural, historical, and religious features of the Holy Land. During their stay, the celebrities met with several government officials in order to learn about the geopolitical situation in Israel, in addition to enjoying their stay, before they returned home.

Sivan Raviv, JN1, Dead Sea

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TiTi Aynaw Gets ready for Obama On Wednesday Barak Obama is arriving in Israel and among all the high ranking government officials he is going to be introduced to is going to be a 21-year old girl from Netanya who was personally invited by the president, we of course are talking about the most beautiful woman in Israel for 2013, Miss Israel, TiTi Aynaw. We caught up with her in this exclusive JN1 interview about how it feels to get ready to meet her biggest role model. It’s hard to believe that less than a month ago no one knew who TiTi was, like a meteor the newly crowned Miss Israel has become a huge celebrity not only in her native, Israel but internationally as well, so much that Barak Obama has heard about her and decided that he wants to meet her. Yityish (Titi) Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013 : "I am very nervous to meet him. He is the president of the USA, a huge man and so excited to meet him I don’t think ever I go to meet with Obama. It’s a dream for me and I am happy that this dream come true now." It’s a huge honor for to meet him and I know his life story and I know he is a strong man and he is a role model for me and I am very very excited to meet him." The question on everyone’s mind is what is Titi going to talk to President Obama about? Yityish (Titi) Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013: "I am going to tell Obama that I was born in Ethiopia and I come to Israel and the Israelis help me to feel at home and they helped me to overcome. It was hard in the beginning to be here and my friends in Israel helped me, they taught me Hebrew and they helped me with everything here about the culture and the Hebrew, everything." My life is change now and I feel amazing and proud to represent Israel." Being she is Miss Israel it was really crucial for us to find out what she will wear for her once-in-lifetime meeting with the president of the United States. Yityish (Titi) Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013: "I still don’t know what I am going to wear for the gala, I have three dresses and I don’t decide what I am going dress but I have options." And does Titi fear that first lady, Michelle Obama, will get jealous with her talking to her husband? Yityish (Titi) Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013: "No, I am not worried she is beautiful woman and she looks like a model, really… I don’t think she is be jealous." Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 , Israel

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