First images received from Ofek 16 satellite

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One week following the successful launch of the Ofek 16 satellite into space, the engineering teams of the Space Administration in the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMoD), and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), have operated the satellite’s observation camera for the first time. The high-quality images were received overnight at an IAI control station in the city of Yehud in central Israel.

Since the launch last Monday , IAI and IMoD teams have conducted a series of pre-planned tests during which all of the satellite’s systems and subsystems were activated in a gradual and controlled manner. Upon completion of the process, the satellite’s camera was also activated successfully. In the coming weeks, engineering teams will complete the rigorous tests, and prepare the satellite for operational use.

Head of the Space and Satellite Administration in IMoD, Amnon Harari: "This is the most significant milestone since the launch of the Ofek 16 satellite. The images we received from the satellite are of excellent quality. We will continue the orderly process of transferring the satellite to operational use, anticipating that over the years, the system will provide great intelligence to the defense establishment.”

IAI EVP and General Manager of the Systems, Missiles and Space Group, Boaz Levy: "This is a landmark achievement – the result of a complex technological and operational process that reflects IAI’s capabilities in the field of space, and also highlights our partnership with other defense industries. Under the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, IAI will continue to advance Israel’s space program towards further operational achievements. "

The Ofek 16 satellite is an electro-optical observation satellite with advanced capabilities. It is equipped with a high-quality camera developed and manufactured by Elbit Systems. In the coming weeks, following the completion of the ‘in orbit testing’ process conducted by the DDR&D, IAI and the IDF, the Ministry of Defense will transfer responsibilities to Unit 9900 of the IDF’s Intelligence Cops, after which the satellite will be declared operational.

The Space Administration in the Israel Ministry of Defense has led the development and production of the satellite and its launcher. IAI is the prime contractor, having assigned the program to its Systems, Missiles and Space Group, together with the MLM division, which is responsible for the development of the launcher. The satellite’s payload was developed by Elbit Systems. The launch engines were developed by Rafael Advanced Systems and Tomer, a government-owned defense company. Additional companies have participated in this program, including Rokar and Cielo. Lastly, various IDF officials, primarily from the Intelligence Corps and Air Force have also been deeply involved in the satellite development process

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Redeeming Chevron .....

Guest article by Rebbetzin Miriam Levinger

Din Note: At the very end of the Rebbitzen's article about Chevron (after the break on page 2),
 I placed a 20 min video where the Rebbitzen speaks .. it was recorded in 1981...it's a bit grainy and has some breaks in between .... but it's kdai to watch to the end..

The story of “ Bnot Tzelofchad” in last week's Parsha, brings me back every year to the story of the group of women myself included settling in the deserted building of Beit Hadassah. 

This ordeal happened some years after my husband, Harav Moshe Levinger z”l and a group of friends began the modern day story of re-settling Hebron in 1968. 

After making Seder Pesach in an Arab hotel, Defense Minister Moshe Dayan moved us to the Hebron military compound. 

Kiryat Arba was built and we moved there in 1971. In 1978, the Arabs appealed to the Supreme Court and as a result all expansion was frozen. 

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CHINESE VIROLOGIST ACCUSES BEIJING OF CORONAVIRUS COVER-UP, FLEES HONG KONG

A Hong Kong virologist who fled to the U.S. earlier this year told "Bill Hemmer Reports" in an exclusive interview Monday that lives could have been saved if the Chinese government hadn't censored her work. 

 "This is a huge pandemic we have seen in the world," Yan Li-Meng told host Bill Hemmer. "It's more than anything we've known in human history. So, the timing is very, very important. If we can stop it early, we can save lives." 

Yan exclusively told Fox News Digital last week that she believes the Chinese government knew about the novel coronavirus well before acknowledging the outbreak publicly. She also claimed her supervisors, renowned as some of the top experts in the field, ignored research she was doing at the onset of the pandemic that she believes could have saved lives.

 "I have to hide because I know how they treat whistleblowers, and as a whistleblower here I want to tell the truth of COVID-19 and the origin of the SARS-2 COVID virus," Yan told Fox News Digital. 

She told Hemmer that Beijing government knew in December that more than 40 citizens had already been infected with the virus and "human-to-human transmissions [were] already [occurring] at that time." 

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Airlines Won’t Have to Refund Money on Cancelled Flights

The Knesset voted on Monday night to approve legislation to make life easier for airlines which cancel flights, but harder on the passengers whose flights are canceled.

Until now, airlines were required to pay out refunds and in some cases compensation for canceled or delayed flights and other inconveniences. The new law will enable airlines to offer a credit toward a replacement booking instead of a cash refund and will be exempted from having to pay compensations.

In addition, hotel accommodations for stranded travelers will be limited to nights only.

The new conditions will apply to flights to and from Israel from March 1 to August 31.

Join List MK Ahmed Tibi, a sponsor of the legislation explained that it was necessary in light of the economic plight of the airline companies due to massive cancellations due to coronavirus travel restrictions. Without such legislation the country’s entire airline sector could collapse, he said.

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Mother Shot Dead After Saying ‘All Lives Matter’

Jessica Whitaker, a 24-year-old mother of one, was with three friends by a canal in Indianapolis in the early hours of July 5 after a 4th of July celebration when a confrontation occurred between her group and a group of Black Lives Matter supporters, allegedly over racial language.

Whitaker’s fiancee, Jose Ramirez, told local news that during a brief argument, someone in the opposing group said “Black Lives Matter,” to which one of Whitaker’s group — possibly Whitaker — responded “All Lives Matter.”

The victim’s father told the Gateway Pundit that the Black Lives Matter group brandished guns during the confrontation, prompting Ramirez to do the same.

The situation de-escalated and both groups withdrew, but Ramirez said the Black Lives Matter supporters later ambushed their group under a nearby bridge, shooting Whitaker dead.

“They were sitting on St. Clair waiting for us to come under the bridge and that’s when she got shot,” said Ramirez.

According to the Gateway Pundit, the victim’s grandfather said Whitaker, mother to a 3-year-old son, was shot in the head.

Aside from one local news outlet, the story was wholly ignored by the mainstream corporate media until the Gateway Pundit discovered the story and published a now-viral article this weekend.

Following the Gateway Pundit’s piece, the story was picked up by a number of mainstream outlets including the Daily Mail and The Sun in the UK, and the New York Daily News in the U.S.

Conservative media including the Daily Caller, the Daily Wire, the Washington Examiner and Fox News’ website also picked up the story following TGP’s coverage.

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Yehuda Landau a Sanzer Chassid Becomes a Pilot

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Trump Slaps Senator Schumer

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23 Year Old Single Nurse is Sick & Tired of the "Frum Shidduch System"

This nurse is 100% correct ..... the proof is in the pudding as more and more young couples are getting divorced in the first year of marriage....

Parents pressured, perhaps worried that their "old katchke" daughter who is already 21 will never get married in our frum world, push their child to get married ASAP.

In the Yeshivishe World the boys are in the driver seats, only G-d knows why; they get lists and lists of resumes, the mothers of these "fancy glasses, pleated pants, Barcelino hats (now small rimmed), spoiled brats, demand that the girl have a profession, be "chinush" slim to the point of being anorexic. These guys even if they are 28, grab the naive wild-eyed 18 year-old fresh out of seminary, leaving the more mature, smarter 24 -28 year accomplished girls in the dust bin... The reason is because the boys are immature, have low self esteem because in their hearts of hearts they know that they don't compare in maturity and in education to any girl their age. 

Most boys that come out of the Yeshiva System and I'm including Mir Yerushalyim, Brisk or Lakewood are bono-fide ama-ratzim. 

There I said it...

Just yesterday in the shul that I daven, they asked a "Brisker" single boy to say something on the parsha (Mattos /Massah), during the 10 minute break between mincha & maariv.... he hemmed and hawed for the first 3 minutes, scratching his head searching the shelves for a non-existent sefer, and then when we asked him to say anything that he learned that very day ..he gave us a blank stare..... this particular boy ... the sweetest and the most handsome guy and the best "catch" in the neighborhood will probably demand that the girl parents buy him an apartment and support him for the first 52 years of marriage.. 

Just to put this in perspective ... when we ask any working guy to say anything on the parsha on the 10 minute break ...even on a whim, they will come up with a beautiful vort that is relevant to the times.... 

Just two weeks ago on Shabbos Parshas Balak, a "kollel guy" gave a half hour pilpul on a sugye in Yavomos, which I guess he was learning, to an audience that were "Yodea sefer" but no one could decipher it and like an airplane that lost its landing gear he couldn't land ..... as far as I'm concerned he wasted my time and I consider this "bitul Torah"and I'm wondering "how will I ever get that half hour back." Mind you that in this parsha even a donkey talked.
The shul advertised this "Shmooze to Nowhere," weeks before.

This guy has been in kolel for 13 years and is being supported by his wife who also takes care of a home with 7 children.

The girls are far better educated, they are knowledgeable in Tanach with all the relevant commentaries, they have more than a basic understanding in Shulchan Aruch  ... and know how to cook and bake and are all around accomplished . In addition, they have profession that will support their ama-ratzim husbands.

There is something very wrong with our education of our boys when they know how to give "chaburois" but don't have a clue what Rashi wants in any given pasuk in the Torah, nor do they know or care to know Tanach.... most of them are very machmir in their lifestyles but are ignorant in basic halachos..

It's no wonder that the Gedoilim today are all close to 100 years old, because the Yeshivas are not producing any Talmedei Chachamim, just mass producing like a Ford Auto Plant, right-wing fanatics that cannot wait for the Zionists to arrest one of them so they can run out to the streets and block traffic.

As of this writing there isn't a Gadol in the entire world that is less than 75 years old .... I remember growing up when Gedoilim were in their 30 and 40's .... those were from an era where most talmidim got a very rounded education which included secular studies..

I know that I didn't even get to address the letter yet..
But I don't have an answer to the nurse that wrote to Flatbush Girl...she has a lot of company in a frum world gone mad!

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Chaim Zuckerman Sues Sex Fiend Mondrowitz & Gerer Yeshivah

Chaim Zuckerman couldn’t believe his eyes.

As the ninth grader was passing through the basement dining room of his Brooklyn yeshiva on his way to work on a large candle he was making with friends to mark the yahrtzeit of the fifth Gerer Rebbe, he saw a schoolmate leaning against a table with a man lying on top of him. Both the man — known to the students as a child therapist — and the boy had their pants down.

It was “the sickest, craziest thing” Zuckerman, then 13, had ever seen.

The boy rushed upstairs and told a teacher what he had witnessed.

The teacher took him to the office of the school’s spiritual supervisor, Avrohom Leizerowitz, who, Zuckerman claims, “berated him for his ‘dirty mind’ and instructed him that he would be required to receive counseling” from the very man in the basement, Avrohom Mondrowitz.

Despite feeling “worried [and] uncomfortable,” Zuckerman told The Jewish Week that he felt obligated to “follow the system” and obey. What happened next has haunted him ever since.

Now, 37 years later, he has filed a lawsuit against Mondrowitz as well as the school, Yeshiva & Mesivta Bais Yisroel, and Leizerowitz.

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Chazzan Yaakov Ehrblich Passes On was 75 Years Old

Chazzan Yaakov Tzvi Erblich died this morning in Florida, he was a world renowned chazzan; and davened with the Yossele Rosenblatt nusach.He was what we call a "zuger" an excellent Chazzan with a beautiful rich voice.

 He was born in Tverye, and was the son of Chazzan Moshe Leib Erblich who served as a chazzan for many years in the Bronx. His mother Bracha Leah was the daughter of R' Yoel Ashkanazi who was the right hand man to the first Satmar Rebbe, R Yoel Teitelbaum z"l.

Chazzan Erblich was a direct descendant of the Sasover Rebbe, R Moshe Leib Erblich.

Chazzan Erblich served for many years as a Chazzan in Los Angeles, he then moved to Monsey, in the Concord area where he served as a Rav and Chazzan. Erblich subsequently moved to Ramat Bet Shemesh where he organized a home for Lone Soldiers.He was constantly involved in Chesed. For the last couple of years he settled in Florida where he succumbed to an illness at 75.

Reb Yaakov was loved by all, and was a close friend of DIN,,,
The Levaya will be tomorrow in Tzfat where he will be buried.

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Eating Meat Boosts Muscle Better than Plant-based Diet As We Age, Study Suggests

Plant-based proteins will not boost muscle health as much as eating meat as we get older, a study suggests.

Researchers found that animal protein is more effective than plant protein in preventing muscles wasting away.

The study found that vegans would need to eat a lot more grains, pulses and beans if they want to get the same benefits that meat, dairy and eggs offer to ageing bodies.

The researchers from King's College London suggest people should eat a balance of both animal and plant proteins.

The report said: 'While we know plant-based diets are beneficial for the environment, we don't know how healthy these diets are for keeping muscles strong. 

'Transitioning from an animal-based protein diet to a plant-based diet is likely to be detrimental to muscle health during ageing.'

Muscles are kept strong by amino acids, bolstered during exercise or from animal proteins and as the body ages, it needs extra help in preventing muscles from wasting.

Plant-based proteins can do the same but the quantity needs to be a lot higher to have that effect, said lead researcher Oliver Witard.

While vegans have ditched meat and dairy for a number of reasons - including health, animal welfare and to protect the environment - the study suggests they may be better off balancing their diet with both animal and plant proteins.

Witard and colleagues conducted tests on volunteers given either animal based proteins or soy and wheat based alternatives and studied isotopes, blood sampling and muscle biopsies to see how well the muscles were building up from amino acids.

The full findings are due to be presented at a virtual conference of The Physiological Society this week.

Witards report said: 'The number of vegans in the UK has quadrupled since 2006, meaning that there are around 600,000 vegans in Great Britain.

'A more balanced and less extreme approach to changing dietary behaviour, meaning eating both animal and plant-based proteins, is best.'

Further tests on alternative plant based proteins such as oat, quinoa and maize are to be carried out to see if they are more effective on a gram for gram basis.

Witard added: 'This research challenges the broad viewpoint that plant proteins don't help build muscles as much as animal protein by highlighting the potential of alternative plant-based protein sources to maintain the size and quality of ageing muscles.

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37 Year-Old Dies from Corona after Claiming the Pandemic was just 'hype' in a Facebook post

A 37-year-old Ohio man who claimed the coronavirus pandemic was just 'hype' and repeatedly refused to wear a face mask has died from COVID-19. 

Richard Rose, wrote on Facebook on July 1 that he was experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, and went to get tested. 

The U.S. Army veteran, who served for nine years and did two tours of Iraq and Afghanistan, tested positive.He died from the virus at his home in Port Clinton, Ohio, on July 4. 

Rose was born in the town and lived there his whole life.

On April 28 that the pandemic was just 'hype'.

'Let make this clear,' he wrote, in a post that was shared 10,000 times. 

'I'm not buying a f**king mask. I've made it this far by not buying into that damn hype.' 

On May 12, Rose wrote: 'I've gotten sick of turning my tv on to political smear ads and sh-t about COVID. 

'So yesterday I turned my cable box in. 

'I've also started snoozing people on here. It's time to block out negativity.'

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Israel Will Allow Entry for Family Simchas

A new list of exemptions from the ban on non-Israelis entering the country during the coronavirus pandemic have been obtained from the Israeli Ministry of the Interior, allowing additional relatives to attend family simchas.

On Sunday night, the following additions to the exceptions were announced, including:

Births: Grandparents may enter Israel for the birth of a grandchild. They may enter the country a month prior to the expected birth, and remain for up to a month after the birth.

Bar/Bat Mitzva: Grandparents may enter Israel for the Bar/Bat Mitzva of a grandchild.

Weddings: Parents, grandparents and siblings of the chosson or kallah had already been allowed to enter for the wedding. However, spouses of siblings (i.e. brother/sister-in-laws) were not. Similarly, we frequently encountered situations where a sister was allowed to enter Israel, but her (nursing) baby was barred – hence making the trip untenable. The new rules allow for brother/sister-in-laws of the chosson or kallah to enter. Additionally, children under one year old may enter along with their parents.

All travelers to Israel need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival. Furthermore, even in the permitted circumstances, one must still obtain permission to enter by emailing the nearest Israeli embassy or consulate.

Applications must include:

Copies of passport(s)

• Travel itinerary (showing travel for more than 14 days – as the traveller will need to quarantine for 14 days upon arrival).
• ID of the Chosson/Kallah, Bar/Bat Mitzva, or expectant mother
• Proof of relation to the Chosson/Kallah, Bar/Bat Mitzva, or expectant mother (birth certificate)
• Medical Insurance which will cover duration of stay in Israel, which must explicitly state that Covid is covered
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Jew Hater Peter Beinart’s ‘Peace’ Plan Is Similar to Satmar Shitah and Hamas’

Read the article below by Elder of Ziyon and tell me the difference between this self hating Jewish writer Peter Beinart's  Idea of "Peace" and  the Satmar Shitah?

The writer, Elder of Ziyon, chastises Peter Beinart's "Peace plan" that would basically replace Israel with another Arab State.... in other words Beinart's idea of peace is not to have a "two state solution" but a "one state solution" with the government of this new state, no longer Jewish ! 

Isn't that the Satmar idea of a State before Moshiach?  Satmar would want that the State to revert to the United Nations.... which is such a crazed and ludicrous idea; even the Arab Jew haters will laugh.... 

Remember when the UN took their troops away from the Israel/Egypt border two weeks before the outbreak of the 1967 war? They did that so the Egyptians would have free reign to murder all the Jews.

Read and weep! 

Does Peter Beinart’s peace plan for Israel resemble Hamas’?

In 2017, Hamas famously took out the blatantly antisemitic language in its manifesto that was supposed-to-but-not-really replace the original Hamas charter:

Hamas affirms that its conflict is with the Zionist project not with the Jews because of their religion. Hamas does not wage a struggle against the Jews because they are Jewish but wages a struggle against the Zionists who occupy Palestine. …

Hamas rejects the persecution of any human being or the undermining of his or her rights on nationalist, religious, or sectarian grounds. Hamas is of the view that the Jewish problem, antisemitism, and the persecution of the Jews are phenomena fundamentally linked to European history and not to the history of the Arabs and the Muslims or to their heritage.

See? Hamas doesn’t say it wants to persecute Jews in its one-state solution.

Other parts of the 2017 Hamas manifesto sound very close to what Beinart would want:

Islam is a religion of peace and tolerance. It provides an umbrella for the followers of other creeds and religions who can practice their beliefs in security and safety. Hamas also believes that Palestine has always been and will always be a model of coexistence, tolerance, and civilizational innovation.

Hamas believes that the message of Islam upholds the values of truth, justice, freedom, and dignity and prohibits all forms of injustice and incriminates oppressors irrespective of their religion, race, gender, or nationality. Islam is against all forms of religious, ethnic, or sectarian extremism and bigotry.

Life in an Islamic state under Hamas rule sounds like a dream!

Senior Hamas official Mahmoud al-Zahar also said in 2006 that he could see Jews, Muslims, and Christians all living together in an Islamic state.

Does anyone believe Hamas?

Beinart was skeptical in his 2012 Crisis of Zionism book, but he felt that their conciliatory statements should be considered by Israel and Zionists as reflecting an evolution of Hamas’ thoughts. Now? Outside the Islamic part, Hamas’ manifesto sounds remarkably like Beinart’s plan for peace and happiness in the Middle East.

Beinart will claim that his solution is different, because Isratine would not be defined as an Islamic or even an Arab state. But can that really be stopped? 

Lebanon is a perfect example of how a nation that is constitutionally committed to equal rights is not the same as one actually committed to equal rights.

Of course, Beinart studiously ignores the thousands of statements from Hamas every year that contradict the language of tolerance in its manifesto. To Beinart, Arabs must be judged favorably; only Jews must be judged harshly. Palestinians must have sovereignty, Jews should be happy with whatever they can get.

Which is exactly what Hamas believes.

Elder of Ziyon has been blogging about Israel and the Arab world for a really long time now. He also controls the world, but deep down, you already knew that.

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Thomas Sowell wonders whether US is reaching point of no return

Ezra Friedlander Compares Moshe Rabbeinu to the Black Harriet Tubman

Ezra with Congressman John Lewis

Ezra "The Liskar Capo" Friedlander wants to stay relevant but is always on the wrong side of history. 

In the photo above, Ezra is discussing a "shevere tosfos" with the Black Congressman John Lewis, who thinks its ok to boycott the only Jewish State in the entire world.

It wasn't too long ago that Friedlander wrote an opinion piece to Holocaust survivors that they should trust Nadler's decision to vote for the "Iran Deal" that would have given consent to Iran to acquire nuclear weapons, a country that vowed to wipe Israel off the map. 

Now in an opinion piece in VIN, he compares Moshe Rabbeinu, the greatest prophet that ever lived to the former black slave, Harriet Tubman.

Instead of writing this to the black community who are statistically a violent bunch who according to wikipedia kill each other at a rate of 97% and commit murder against whites at a rate of 81%, this bloody fool gives mussar to the heimishe community, asking them to live peacefully with the black community!

In his condescending tone he scribbles:

"The time has come when we must educate our Yiddish speaking populations and the Jewish community at-large of the trials and tribulations our African-American neighbors have endured. We must produce adequate Yiddish and English language materials suitable for our yeshivas and day schools in order to do so: an unprecedented project of societal acquaintance."

This is the same guy that fights the NYS Dept of Education regulations which force Yeshivos to teach basic English courses ...

In this opinion he wants Yeshivos to introduce courses on "African-American trials and tribulations".....and in Yiddish no less!

When was the last time you saw a bunch of Heimishe guys unprovokingly chasing  blacks to beat the crap out of them?

What's fascinating is that he wants to introduce "black history" to chassidishe kids who know nothing of their very own history...

who do not learn Tanach, who don't know that Hashem gave us Eretz Yisrael for keeps and that it belongs to the Jewish people today and that there is Mitzva of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael bizman hazeh according to practically all rishonim. 

Notice the last line in the above quote:

"an unprecedented project of societal acquaintance."

What the hell does that mean?  "societal acquaintance" ? He must have copied that from some porn novel he was reading.... 

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Ellie Goldstein Jewish Model With Down’s Syndrome Lands Campaign With Gucci

Ellie Goldstein, an 18-year-old Jewish model who has Down syndrome, recently fulfilled a lifelong dream by starring in a photoshoot sponsored by famous fashion and beauty chain Gucci. Goldstein will appear in the Italian edition of Vogue later this month. The teenager broke social media records when she appeared on the official Gucci Instagram page, culling more than 800,000 likes for her post.

Goldstein was born in Ilford, a small town in the county of Essex near London in the UK. In 2017, when she was just 15, Goldstein started modeling at the Zebedee Management modeling agency which provides services for models with disabilities. Research shows that only 0.06% of those featured in ads have a disability, reducing to 0.01% for fashion & beauty ads, but the agency aims to offer “sensitive representation” for those with disabilities who wish to pursue a modeling career.

Goldstein has featured in the past in campaigns with Nike and Vodafone but the Gucci shoot is her biggest campaign yet. In the campaign she models Gucci mascara L’Obscur. Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele wrote on the Instagram post: “I designed L’Obscur mascara for an authentic person who uses makeup to tell their story of freedom, in their way.”

Goldstein responded to the huge positive feedback on Instagram by stating that “I really enjoyed the modelling and loved wearing the Gucci dress. I’m really proud of the photo shoot. She added that  “I’m looking forward to modelling for other brands, ” suggested that the ambitious model has plans to continue her trailblazing career elsewhere.

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