Today, I step onto Fifth Avenue as Miss Israel World International, with a design inspired by Israel’s 78th birthday celebration cake, but also as “Kosher Barbie”—a fashionista wearing identity as a message, not just a look.

For the Israel Day Parade in New York, I created a symbolic gown inspired by that same celebration: a dress that begins in expressive pink and transforms into the blue and white of the Israeli flag, centered with the Magen David.

Some may see it as fashion. I call it language. Because clothing, like identity, speaks—sometimes louder than words. It says that identity is not something we........

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