Malkat HaYofi 2009 results: Tamar Ziskind crowns Adi Rodnitzki in Haifa, Israel

• beauty pageant: Malkat HaYofi (Miss Israel)
• edition: 60th
• date: March 18, 2009
• candidates: 20
• venue: Haifa International Convention Center, Haifa, Israel
• hosts: Yelena Ralph, Liran Koehner 
• performers: Eyal Golan, Achinoam Nini, Mira Awad, Michal Amdursky

JUDGES

• Malkat HaYofi 2006 Yael Nizri
• Laisha magazine editor-in-chief Miriam Nofech-Moses
• Laisha CEO Dana Epstein-Changri
• Variety Israel CEO Ricky Ariel
• Maybelline New York Israel CEO Noa Winpers
• E. Jewelry. Star CEO Israel Kurt
• Scoop shoe chain owner Freddie Insase
• Luke Agency vice president Meir Cohen
• fashion designer Danny Mizrahi 
• designer Yael Lerner
• model Rotem Sela
• model Yonatan Wagman

CANDIDATES

NAME	AGE	HOMETOWN	HEIGHT
Ksenia Zaks	20	Tel-Aviv	183 cm
Karin Nakash	21	Beit-Dagan	170 cm
Ana Varonin	20	Tel-Aviv	174 cm
Hodaya Cohen	17	Ba’er-Sheva	170 cm
Dana Amrani-Sheleg	20	Zichron-Ya’akov	171 cm
Yulia Liubianitzki	20	Haifa	176 cm
Marin Obcherenko	19	Or-Akiva	170 cm
Adi Rodnitzki	19	Tel-Aviv	171 cm
Sharon Deri	22	Haifa	178 cm
Lee Braunshtein	19	Tel-Aviv	174 cm
Violet Diachenko	22	Netivot	170 cm
Emily Kai	18	Kfar-Saba	173 cm
No’a Hadad	20	Hod-Hasharon	178 cm
Adaya Zeidman	22	Be’er-Sheva	175 cm
Sivan Zvulum	20	Modi’in	170 cm
Shirley Solomon	17	Naharia	174 cm
Suzanne O’Brien	19	Holon	173 cm
Rona Ne-eman	20	Rishon-Letzion	170 cm
Noy Michaelov	23	Jerusalem	173 cm
Talia Ben-Melech	22	Givataim	175 cm

SPECIAL AWARD

• People’s Choice: Dana Amrani-Sheleg

WINNERS

PLACEMENT	2009	2008
Top 6	Karin Nakash Lee Braunstein
Malkat Hayofi-Esreh	Adaya Zeidman Be’er Sheva	Linn Mor Tel Aviv (Miss Earth Israel 2008)
Malkat Hachen	Noy Michaelov Jerusalem (Miss Earth Israel 2009)	No’a Avrahami Tel Aviv
Na’arat Israel Miss Universe Israel	Yulia Liubianitzki Haifa	Shunit Faragi Kiryat Tiv’on
Malkat HaYofi Miss World Israel	Adi Rodnitzki Tel Aviv	Tamar Ziskind Haifa