Tahounia Rubel

Tahounia Rubel
Tahounia Rubel
Born	February 20, 1988 (age 36); Gondar, Ethiopia
Occupations	Model; singer; television personality; presenter;
	Modeling information
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Agency	MC2 Model Management (Tel Aviv) ; Vision Models (Cape Town)

Tahounia Rubel (

fifth season.^[1]

Biography

Tahounia Rubel was born in

Amharic. Rubel moved to Israel with her family when she was three, under the widely known immigration drive called Operation Solomon. She served as a Driving Course Instructor in the Logistics Corps of the Israel Defense Forces

. During her military service, she completed 12 years of schooling.

In 2012, Rubel went to

Diesel for Glamour magazine. She has also been likened to a young Iman.^[2]

In 2012, Rubel was named "The Israeli Supermodel" in an Israeli beauty pageant, becoming the first woman of Ethiopian origin to win a local beauty pageant. She subsequently represented Israel at the World Supermodel Pageant in Fiji, but missed a place in the final.

In 2013, Rubel won the fifth series of

Big Brother) and worth NIS one million.^[1]^[3] Roni Maili, one of the houseguests in the show who was eliminated later because of aggressive behavior, made racist comments about her.^[4]^[5]

In September 2013, Rubel participated in a special fundraiser broadcast of
HaKokhav HaBa
(the Israeli version of Rising Star).

A 45-minute

Big Brother). The documentary was broadcast on May 15, 2014 on Channel 2 to 611.3 thousand viewers and it was the second highest rating for that day. A few days later it was broadcast in Europe and the United States on the Israeli Network.^[6]

In 2021, she took part in the second season of the

The Masked Singer as the Babushka

and was the eighth contestant eliminated.