--- title: Miss Lebanon Criticized After Being Caught in Miss Israel’s Selfie description: Miss Lebanon said she had been trying to avoid taking photos with Miss Israel, but Miss Israel initiated a selfie canonical: https://time.com/3673083/miss-lebanon-miss-israel-selfie/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-18T22:50:53.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:16:02.205Z og:title: Miss Lebanon Criticized After Being Caught in Miss Israel’s Selfie og:description: Beauty pageant snap has caused an international stir og:url: https://time.com/3673083/miss-lebanon-miss-israel-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Miss Lebanon Criticized After Being Caught in Miss Israel’s Selfie twitter:description: Beauty pageant snap has caused an international stir twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Miss Lebanon Criticized After Being Caught in Miss Israel's Selfie by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jan 18, 2015 10:50 PM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jan 18, 2015 10:50 PM UTC A seemingly good-spirited selfie taken at the Miss Universe pageant has [caused a political stir](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/oh-snap-miss-lebanon-slammed-selfie-miss-israel-n288471?cid=par-time-article%5F20150118). Miss Lebanon, Saly Greige, is being criticized for being caught in a photo with Miss Israel, Doron Matalon, along with two other girls. After Matalon posted the snapshot on her Facebook profile, Lebanese television station _Al Jadeed_ quipped that, since one of her hobbies is reading, she should have read that Lebanon and Israel are enemies. Greige explained the situation on her Facebook page, saying she had been trying to avoid communicating with and taking a photo with Miss Israel since arriving at the competition… [Read more from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/oh-snap-miss-lebanon-slammed-selfie-miss-israel-n288471?cid=par-time-article%5F20150118) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3673083/miss-lebanon-miss-israel-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3673083/miss-lebanon-miss-israel-selfie/"},"headline":"Miss Lebanon Criticized After Being Caught in Miss Israel's Selfie","datePublished":"2015-01-18T22:50:53.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:16:02.205Z","description":"Miss Lebanon said she had been trying to avoid taking photos with Miss Israel, but Miss Israel initiated a selfie","url":"https://time.com/3673083/miss-lebanon-miss-israel-selfie/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Middle East"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3673083/miss-lebanon-miss-israel-selfie/","name":"Miss Lebanon Criticized After Being Caught in Miss Israel's Selfie"}}]}] ```