Doron Matalon ( he, דורון מטלון, born 20 May 1993) is an Israeli
beauty pageant
A beauty pageant is a competition that has traditionally focused on judging and ranking the physical attributes of the contestants. Pageants have now evolved to include inner beauty, with criteria covering judging of personality, intelligence, ...
titleholder who won the title of
Miss Israel 2014 for Miss Universe 2014. She represented her country at the
Miss Universe 2014
Miss Universe 2014 was the 63rd Miss Universe pageant, held at the FIU Arena in Florida, United States on January 25, 2015. This was the first time in the history of the competition that the pageant was not during the year the title was awarde ...
pageant.
Personal life
Doron Matalon was born and raised in
Beit Aryeh-Ofarim
Beit Aryeh-Ofarim ( he, בֵּית אַרְיֵה-עֳפָרִים) is an Israeli settlement and local council in the northern West Bank. It is located north of Jerusalem and east of Tel Aviv, near the Palestinian village of al-Lubban al-Gharbi ...
. Her father is a manager at
IBM and her mother is a kindergarten teacher. The meaning of her name is "gift" in both
Hebrew
Hebrew (; ; ) is a Northwest Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family. Historically, it is one of the spoken languages of the Israelites and their longest-surviving descendants, the Jews and Samaritans. It was largely preserved ...
and
Greek.
She served as a sergeant in the Northern Command of the Israeli army.
In December 2011, Matalon gained national publicity after a
sex segregation incident on a Jerusalem bus. She said a 45-year-old
Haredi man demanded she move to the back of the bus, threatening her and calling her a prostitute, but she refused. The incident was covered extensively by the Israeli media, and she became a symbol of women's empowerment. Matalon pressed charges, and the man was later convicted of sexually harassing her.
Jewish man convicted of sexual harassment after calling female soldier a whore
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Pageantry
Miss Israel 2014
Matalon was crowned as the Miss Universe Israel 2014 together with Mor Mamman who was crowned as the official Miss Israel at the pageant. The Miss Israel pageant was held at the Congress Center in Haifa.
Miss Universe 2014
Matalon competed in the Miss Universe 2014
Miss Universe 2014 was the 63rd Miss Universe pageant, held at the FIU Arena in Florida, United States on January 25, 2015. This was the first time in the history of the competition that the pageant was not during the year the title was awarde ...
pageant and finished unplaced.
See also
* Israeli fashion
References
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Living people
Jewish female models
Israeli beauty pageant winners
1993 births
Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Miss Universe 2014 contestants
Miss Israel delegates