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Religious Meddlers, Do-gooders

It was a simple beauty pageant called Miss Samaria - a competition to find the prettiest teenager in the settlement of Ariel and surrounding areas. ...

Twenty finalists competed in bikinis and high heels for a contract with a Tel Aviv modelling agency.

The organiser, local photographer Avner Auster, was determined to press ahead despite opposition from more religiously Orthodox settlers.

When he started advertising his beauty contest the posters did not stay up for long.

They were ripped down by religious settlers angered by what they saw as indecency. ...

"A guy came into my shop and told me I should stop. He said I'm not keeping Israeli girls' purity.

The beauty queens of Ariel are dismissive. ...

"I think they're wrong. We're not religious, and we have the right to do whatever we want. I don't see anything bad in what we're doing. We're just making our dream come true that's all."

Tempers flare over settler beauty contest

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