Anat Elimelech

Anat Elimelech was born in 1974 in Jerusalem

Anat Elimelech was born in Jerusalem in 1974 to Billy and Avi Elimelech. She grew up in the city and went to high school in the Gilo neighborhood. In 1980 she won a children's beauty contest in Jerusalem.

In 1991 she won the Miss Kenyon contest in Jerusalem and began modeling for the Look agency. At that contest she met hairdresser David Afuta, and the two became a couple. In the IDF she served as an assistant to a military dentist.

In 1993 she won the Queen of Grace title at the Miss Israel contest and went on to Miss International in China. In 1995 she competed for the Wheel Girl role on the Israeli Wheel of Fortune. She appeared in Hiperkol commercials, children's video tapes, and in 1997 hosted HaChofesh HaGadol on Educational Television.

On December 2, 1997 she was found shot dead with Afuta in Jerusalem. A first investigation concluded she had shot him, and she was buried in the suicide plot of Har HaMenuchot. A renewed investigation found that Afuta had shot her and then himself, and that his brothers had moved the gun to her hand.

Her remains were moved to a regular burial plot in 2001. A film about her life aired on Channel 2 in 1998, and a docudrama about the case was made in 2020.