Israeli actress Bell Agam says she is proud to be featured on the August page of a calendar distributed internationally by the Foreign Ministry.
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Agam is transgender.
"This morning I am proud to be Israeli and the first transgender [person] in history to be featured on the Foreign Ministry calendar, which goes out worldwide this week," Agam told her 54,0000 Instagram followers on Thursday.
"I'm proud to represent my beloved country. Thank you to the Foreign Ministry for choosing me, what an honor," Agam added.
The August page of the calendar shows a picture of Agam sporting a black and white suit, photographed in front of Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv.
Agam, 37, was born Nissim Ajmi. "Around age 10, I started feeling confused," she told Globes in an interview in 2018. "It's not that I felt that I wanted to be a woman, but I realized that I was attracted to my feminine side."
Also in 2018, Agam was voted "Israel's mentor of the year" for setting up a support group for transgender girls, which she runs on a volunteer basis.
Agam gained fame in 2004 on the second season of the reality show "Project Y," and since then has acted in the series "HaAlufa" (the champion) and "HaTachana" (the station). The latter role marked the first time that a transgender actress played a female part in Israel.
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