Miriam Hadar Weingarten () is an

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lawyer, model and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Israel 1958 and represented Israel at

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Life

Hadar-Weingarten was born in

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(now

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). She did her military service in the

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while studying law at the

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. In 1958, she won the title of ''Beauty Queen of Jerusalem'' and ''Beauty Queen of Israel''. She represented Israel in the

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pageant, where she placed among the finalists and won the trophy for the Best Speech. After this experience, she embarked on a three-year government-sponsored lecture tour throughout the US and Canada. Upon returning to Israel, Hadar-Weingarten was a writer and editor for 17 years on the staff of the newspapers ''

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'' and ''

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'', where she reported on the government and

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. Her first husband was Jack Weingarten, a Texan, of the Weingarten's supermarket chain; she had two children with him. In parallel with her family life she began to study cinema at

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. After her divorce she married

Member

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and later gave birth to a daughter, Ayelet. She began to teach at Tel Aviv University and later emigrated to New York. During the 1973

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, Hadar Weingarten was the first woman to cross the Suez Canal into Egypt with the Israeli Armed Forces. To get to the front lines - ordinarily forbidden to women - she disguised herself as a man, wearing a helmet, boots and male uniform. She recorded the bitter fighting and bloody horrors throughout the war.

Other

Hadar Weingarten moved to

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, where she had a career in real estate. She received the Real Estate Board of New York ''Residential Deal Award''. Her daughter, Lea, married

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, convicted in the

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scandal.

References

Sources

*"Weingarten wins REBNY award", ''Real Estate Weekly'' (New York City). December 11, 2002. *" On the Israeli front: Mira Weingarten - first woman across Suez Canal", ''The Houston Post'' January 11, 1975. Page 3B. * "Charming Sabra: Lovely, Brainy Miss Israel Has Led a Colorful Life," ''Charleston Evening Post'' March 4, 1959. * "Beauty Queen, Military Veteran, Plans Career in Foreign Service," ''The Greenville News'' May 27, 1959. * "Most Beautiful Sergeant in World Visits Here," ''Evening Sun'' (Baltimore) June 1, 1959.
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