Yityish Aynaw, Miss Israel 2013,
Meets U.S. President Barack Obama
Meets U.S. President Barack Obama
2013 Miss Israel, Yityish Aynaw, named Obama as one of her heroes,
seeing the similarities between them: “Like him, I was also raised
by my grandmother. Nothing was handed to me on a plate and like him I
also had to work very hard and long to achieve things in my life.”
Clearly, what is being evoked here is the symbolic rhetoric of
pulling oneself up by their bootstraps— that oft-told tale of
immigrants being able to succeed if they try hard enough, a
foundational element of the ethos of the United States.
Aynaw was
named Miss Israel 2013, the first black winner of that title. Like
other Ethiopians of the Jewish faith, Aynaw came to live in Israel
as an aliyah immigrant. She had been orphaned at a young
age in her birth country before she moved to Israel with her
grandparents.
John Malveaux
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