Pnina Rosenblum

Pnina Rosenblum (Hebrew: פנינה רוזנבלום‎, born (1954-12-30)30 December 1954) is an Israeli businesswoman, model, media personality, and a former politician.

Pnina Rosenblum
Faction represented in the Knesset
2005–2006Likud
Personal details
Born
Pnina Rosenblum

(1954-12-30) 30 December 1954
Petah Tikva, Israel

Early life

Rosenblum was born in Petah Tikva, Israel, to immigrant parents; an Ashkenazi Jewish father from Germany and a Sephardic Jewish mother from Iraq.

She served for a brief period of seven months in military bands of the Israel Defense Forces, that ended in 1974.[1]

Career

1970s and 1980s: Modelling, acting, singing
Rosenblum at the Israel Fashion Week in 1973

Rosenblum was an actress and fashion model, known to foreign media in her youth as Pnina Golan. She appeared in the Israeli films Kasach (1984), Am Yisrael Hai (1981), Lo LeShidur (1981), Diamante Lobo (1976), and Malkat HaKvish (1971).

She briefly debuted as a singer in 1983, in a bid to represent Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest. Her entry, Tamid Isha ("Always a Woman") was ranked last, yet gained popularity since in Israel.[2]

1999–2009: Politics and Knesset

In 1999, she formed an independent list named after herself, together with Avi Balashnikov, in order to run in the 1999 Knesset (the Israeli parliament) elections. Her party did not pass the electoral threshold of 1.5%, although her party became the largest without representation. The party dissolved soon afterwards.

Rosenblum later joined the Likud party, and on 10 December 2005 entered the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, after the defection of several Likud MKs to Kadima opened up spaces for new Likud members. However, her stint as an MK did not last long, as she lost her seat four months later in the March 2006 elections. In 2009 the Likud placed her at the unrealistic 46th place.

Since 1989: Business and television

In 1989, she founded her own and highly successful cosmetics company, Pnina Rosenblum Ltd.

In 2014, she and her daughter Chen competed as a team on the fourth season of the Israeli version of The Amazing Race, HaMerotz LaMillion. Pnina tripped and fractured her wrist immediately after departing the Starting Line, eliminating them from the competition before they even had a chance to leave Israel.[3]

Personal life

In the early 1990s she married Moshe Haim, with whom she adopted a daughter and a son from an orphanage in Russia and in Romania, respectively. Haim and Rosenblum got divorced, re-married, and then got divorced again. In 2004, she was married to Israeli businessman Ronny Simanovich, father of three from his previous marriage, one of whom is Israeli model Coral Simanovich (Spanish-Calatan footballer Sergi Roberto's wife).

References
  1. https://olam.eu-central-1.linodeobjects.com/pdfs/B-I1924-D170774.pdf#page=18
  2. Pnina Rosenblum: Israeli princess in pink Ynet, 29 October 2006.
  3. פנינה רוזנבלום מגיבה: "זה החזיר אותי אחורה לסבל הכפול, הפיזי והנפשי". Mako (in Hebrew). 23 November 2014. Retrieved 13 July 2020.
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