Weingarten wins REBNY award

Real Estate Weekly,  Dec 11, 2002  

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Miriam Weingarten, a vice president with Insignia Douglas Elliman, was honored with the "Residential Deal of the Year" Award presented by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY).

The award recognized Weingarten's accomplishment in selling a $1.23 million "classic 6" coop at 239 Central Park West, which involved a particularly long and complicated negotiation.

Weingarten was honored at REBNY's 2002 Autumn Gala in October, its annual Awards Dinner and fundraiser. Weingarten has been a real estate broker in New York for 15 years, entering the industry after a career as a journalist.

A native of Israel, Weingarten was a writer and editor for 18 years, on the staff of Ma'ariv and Ha'aretz, the leading newspapers in Israel. She reported on the government and the Knesset, covering state visits of dozens of VIPs, ranging from President Anwar El-Sadat of Egypt to Queen Beatrice of the Netherlands, from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Henry Kissinger to Elizabeth Taylor.

In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, she made history by being the only woman to report from the front lines, disguising herself as a man to get into a zone forbidden to women throughout the six weeks of the war.

Before that, she represented Israel in the Miss Universe Pageant, where she placed among the 10 finalists and won the trophy for "Best Speech." The upshot of that was a government-sponsored lecture tour throughout the U.S. and Europe.

Weingarten is a graduate of the Law School at Hebrew University and of its Academy of Music, where she studied piano.

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