Israeli beauty queen Yityish “Titi” Aynaw seemed completely at ease as she mingled with the assembled guests on Tuesday evening on the penthouse balcony with breathtaking views of south Manhattan. Dozens of handsome and stylish Jewish twenty to forty somethings hovered around her, trying to get her attention, whisper in her ear, take a photo…
When Yityish Aynaw immigrated from Ethiopia to Israel at age 12, she was thrust into an Israeli classroom. An orphan lacking Hebrew skills, Aynaw says she relied on other kids and her own sheer ambition to get through. Ten years later Aynaw, 22, is the first Ethiopian-Israeli to be crowned Miss Israel – a title…
“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever meet the president of the United States,” said Titi Aynaw when she received an invitation to the state dinner given in honor of President Obama yesterday in Jerusalem. Not only did the recently crowned Miss Israel 2013 (and the first Ethiopian Israeli to bear…
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