Madonna high on Holy Land
Madonna says she’s happy she made her kabbala pilgrimage to Israel. Despite being dogged night and day by the media, she tells us in an e-mail, “I felt very safe and very welcome….From my perspective, the trip was a smashing success.”
She does allow that, though she tried to strike some poses for photogs as she visited holy sites, “the paparazzi in Israel are the most volatile and ferocious I’ve ever witnessed….They make the Italians look like pussycats.”
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Madonna isn’t the only one who wants to visit Israel. Gov. Pataki told new Israeli consul Arye Mekel that he wants to go back for another visit. (Pataki accompanied Mayor Bloomberg and Rudolph Giuliani in 2002 for a 16-hour trip after a wave of terror there.)
Pataki, who wants to bring his daughters, asked Mekel if the country is safe. Mekel, who bonded with Pataki on the ’02 trip, assured the gov that this summer brought a record number of youth to the Mideast’s only democracy and argues that “It’s a lot safer since the fence was put up.”
Source: New York Daily News
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