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Trump Super Fan Hosts 'Miss Holocaust Survivor' Beauty Pageant
https://www.thedailybeast.com/miss-holocaust-survivor-beauty-pageant-hosted-by-trump-super-fan?ref=homeTrump Super Fan Hosts ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ Beauty Pageant
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Women in their 70s, 80s and 90s are to be rated out of ten by members of the public in the first global Holocaust survivor contest.
Noga Tarnopolsky
Updated Nov. 16, 2021 8:57AM ET / Published Nov. 16, 2021 8:44AM ET
JERUSALEM—Ten survivors of the Nazi genocide are taking part in the first global contest to crown the winner of the Miss Holocaust Survivor Beauty Pageant.
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The event is organized by Yad Ezer l’Haver, a Haifa based charity that provides care and lodging for Holocaust survivors. It is funded by evangelical Trump super fan Mike Evans, whose Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem is hosting the gala.
Evans is best known for his fanatical support of former President Donald Trump and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Last June, he warned that Israel was likely to lose the support of American evangelicals if it allowed “rabid dogs” Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid—now the country’s prime minister and foreign minister—to “crucify” Netanyahu.
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One man who will not be attending is Jerusalemite Rami Ostrovsky, whose mother, Miriam Ostrovsky, survived multiple Nazi extermination camps as a teenager, said he saw an ad for the event in the paper.
He told The Daily Beast that the competition is “pathetic and idiotic and exploitative of the Holocaust.”
“It is not clear to me what it’s purpose is, but I’ll bet there is money behind it,” he said.The Friends of Zion Museum, which is virtually unknown to Israelis, is located in Rivlin square, a large city square in downtown Jerusalem which was purchased in its entirety by Mike Evans during the Trump years. He welcomed the former president during his visit to Israel with building-sized banners all over the city.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/miss-holocaust-survivor-beauty-pageant-hosted-by-trump-super-fan?ref=home
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