By MARION FISCHEL
• Born: 1954 in Petah Tikva, to Iraqi mother and German Holocaust survivor father, who abandoned family when she was a toddler.
• Grew up: in rented shack with an outside toilet.
• Left high school: after 10th grade to work as salesgirl.
• Talent spotted: at 16, in Tel Aviv as beauty contest material; dyes her hair platinum blonde and rises to become Israel's most famous model.
• Army service: Has special uniform made with extra long trousers to cover platform shoes and a tight skirt; discharged after seven months.
• Five years abroad: Models in London, Hollywood and New York; dates Peter Sellers; dines with Frank Sinatra; parties at the Playboy Mansion and Chez Johnny Carson; romances Roman Polanski, Edward Kennedy and Robert De Niro, turns down Warren Beatty and poses for Salvador Dali.
• Back in Israel: Resumes modeling assignments; makes TV appearances; interviews the rich and famous such as Julio Iglesias and Cary Grant.
• Businesses: Pnina's Sandwiches; clothing and makeup store in Dizengoff Center; launches cosmetic company in 1991 with $20,000 loan; today Pnina Rosenblum Ltd grosses $8 million a year.
• Reunion: with long-lost father; he dies in 2001.
• Marries: at 37 to Moshe Haim 26; they divorce, remarry and divorce again.
• The Wall Street Journal 1992, nominates her as owning the fastest-growing cosmetics company in Israel.
• Adopts two children girl Chen, now 11; boy Gal, now 10.
• Rated most popular woman: mid-90s newspaper poll.
• 1999 elections: Runs under own party getting 45,000 votes, 3,000 short.
•Autobiography:The Road to the Dream.
• 2003 elections: Runs with Likud as 41st candidate.
• TV show debuts: 2004, The World According to Pnina.
• Another groom: 2004, marries childhood sweetheart, Roni Simanowitz.
• Caught: 2005, employs illegal workers as housekeepers.
• Car: Porsche.
• Diamond: 5-carat ring.
• Home: 640-square-meter, 5-story house with 80-meter swimming pool and 3-car garage.