Rana Raslan (Arabic: رنا رسلان; Hebrew: רנא רסלאן; born (1977-03-17)17 March 1977) is an Israeli former model who won Miss Israel in 1999.

[2] With the cancellation of the pageant in 2022, she remains the only Arab and Muslim to have won the title.

[3][4] Following her crowning as national beauty queen, Raslan represented Israel at Miss Universe that same year.

[5] Concurrent Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed Raslan's first-place nomination as a "clear manifestation of equality and cooperation between Jews and Arabs in Israel" and criticized the assertion that Arabs are treated as second-class citizens under Israeli law.

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