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Miss Israel: A Soviet emigre
who helps other newcomers
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important advantage - she mas-
tered English. She speaks fluent-
ly and without any trace of an ac-
cent.
An honor student who plans a
career in social psychology, Ivana
never expected to become a -
beauty queen. "I didn't want to
enter the contest at first," she
confesses. "My cousins talked me
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banquets, Please Call Bob Porter at 225-1661.
Helping with the absorption of
thousands of new olim (immi-
grants) is high on the agenda for
Ivana Krugliak, the newly crowned
Miss Israel. Herself a Soviet emi-
gre, Ivana 'was brought to Israel
from her native Riga, Latvia in 1974
at the age of two. "I don't remem-
ber my own aliyah," she says.
"But my parents got a lot of help
from kind people in Beer Sheba
where we first settled." They
were also assisted, of course, by
American Jewry through the Jew-
ish Federations.
Because.of this, Ivana recog-
nizes that it is often a display of
personal concern that can make
the difference between success-
ful and unsuccessful aliyah.
"We have to make them (the
new olim) feel that this is their
home, hot just another country
that they have immigrated to,"
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Tall and slender with bright
green eyes and flowing blond
hair, Ivana was an easy winner.
"A beauty queen isn't a doll. She
has to have intelligence and good
general knowledge," she insists.
Ivana regards herself as an am-
‘bassador of goodwill for the State
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Elegant, comfortable surroundings for small engagements,
stately ballrooms for galas of 750 to 1500 guests.
she insists emphatically.
This isn't just idle talk. Ivana
has helped to resettle Russian
families in her home town of Bat
Yam. "I have helped to teach them
how to go shopping and how to
understand the banking system,"
she says.
Having arrived as a child during
the period of massive immigra-
tion of Soviet Jews in the 1970s,
Ivana's adjustment to Israeli life
was relatively painless. "We spoke
Russian at home and I picked up
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Hebrew as soon as I went to nur-
sery school." However, she did
experience some of the disloca-
tions of immigration when She
spent three years in California as
a teenager.
"The Jewish community was
very kind to my family, but I
missed Israel terribly. I felt that I
belonged here, that this was my
home," sh recalls. She returned
on her own, and went to live with
her grandmother in the coastal
town of Bat Yam. The California
ardwoods and soft lighting, a venerable staff and
superb food and beverage.
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