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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: How ‘Beauty Queen of Jerusalem’ star Swell Ariel Or now helps Israel on and off screen
Description: Just hours before Hamas’ attack on southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 the Israeli film star Swell Ariel Or was in Canada as the guest of honour at an Israel Bonds fundraiser. The twenty-something actor was fresh off her breakout role in the Israeli historical family saga “The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem” which aired on Netflix in 2022. She portrayed Luna Ermoza, the fashion-designer daughter of a Sephardic Jewish family living in pre-1948 Jerusalem.
The actor did a sit down interview with The CJN Daily while she was in Toronto, although neither she or we could have predicted that the world would change...