Miss Lebanon 2018 Salwa Akar received international press attention when she was stripped of her title in Lebanon , while participating in Miss Earth 2018 pageant after she posted a photo in Facebook with her arm around Miss Israel 's Dana Zerik and making peace signs . Lebanon and Israel are in a long standing state of war . As a result , she was unable to continue her participation in the Miss Earth pageant . In a press release , Israel 's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ’s spokesman Ofir Gendelman , reacted on Akar ’s dethronement and condemned the " Lebanese apartheid . " The pageant had been held in the Philippines every year from 2001 to 2009 . Miss Earth 2006 was scheduled to be held in Santiago , Chile on November 15 , but organizational problems forced the pageant to move back to the Philippines
Miss Earth 2006
Miss Earth 2006
Miss Earth