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(IsraelNN.com) At the fifth annual Arab beauty pageant ever held in Israel and sponsored by Arab media, winner Stephanie Zakkak received a morality lecture from Israel's only Arab minister in Shfaram Sunday night. Minister of Culture, Science and Sport, Raleb Majadele (Labor) said he had been the target of criticism in the Arab sector for attending the beauty pageant event. People had called to ask how he, as a religious Muslim, could crown a beauty queen.

Majadele said, "I would like to see the woman fill a central role in the building of a family according to the Arab society's world view, and not that of the blind Israeli modern European society," he announced. "The woman's role should be to build a good family, to be an aide to her husband and to stand by him."

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