Background
She is from Kiryat Tiv"on, near Haifa, her father was a mechanic and a pilot in the Israeli Air Force and her mother was a kindergarten teacher.
She is from Kiryat Tiv"on, near Haifa, her father was a mechanic and a pilot in the Israeli Air Force and her mother was a kindergarten teacher.
I think my being Mission Universe will show people that Israel has another side, not only war." Extensive security precautions were taken as she began her world tour with a stop in Bangkok. Her immediate response: "An Arab one."
After her reign as Mission Universe, Rina Messinger stayed in New York City, where she worked in Public Relations for the Jewish Agency and the Bonds. After four years she returned to Israel and continued working in Public Relations for a big business company.
There she met her soon-to-be husband, a very successful businessman.
They had two daughters. In 1991, she decided to fulfill her dream and started studying law in the Tel-Aviv University.
In 2002 after six years in the Netherlands, the family returned home to Israel, Messinger is a family lawyer in Tel Aviv, working on her doctorate and appearing every week in the morning show of Channel 10, where she gives advice in family law. In 1981, she wrote a book on her experience as Mission Universe. in the years 1989 and 2004 she was a judge in the Mission Israel contest.