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Angling for a cameo role? Peres and Seinfeld laugh it up at the President's House (GPO)
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After making a joke of making out during Schindler's list on his sitcom, Jerry Seinfeld appears serious as he listens beneath a photo of a scene from an extermination camp (Yad Vashem)
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| By Israel Insider staff November 24, 2007 |
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| Seinfeld visit the Jewish Quarter and Kotel (Flash90) |
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Comedian, actor and scriptwriter Jerry Seinfeld suited up like a nice Jewish boy to visit the President, the Prime Minister (wearing a casual sweatshirt, and various tourist sites.
He arrived Thursday to promote his animated film Bee Movie, which he co-wrote, co-produced and stars in (his voice at least). Israel is Seinfeld's first stop on a world tour to promote it.
On Friday, Seinfeld toured Yad Vashem -- Israel's memorial to the six million Jews slaughtered in the Shoah [Holocaust], Jerusalem's Old City and Masada. He met with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and President Shimon Peres. He told Peres that he was excited by the warm welcome he got in Israel, and astounded by how popular his sitcom, "Seinfeld," -- still being re-run a dozen times a day on cable -- is in this country.
"You can imagine how much people like you here and respect you," Peres told Seinfeld as the two sat in suits and ties in front of Israeli flags at Beit Hanassi.
Seinfeld explained the idea of his movie to the 84-year-old Nobel peace laureate. "It's about a bee who's not sure that he wants to go into honey," Seinfeld said, as Peres laughed. "They tell him he has no choice." Peres told reporters on Thursday night that he had been looking forward to his meeting with Seinfeld, whose show he enjoys, and whom he finds to be extremely funny. "He's a very energetic and industrious fellow," said Peres.
Seinfeld, 53, first came to Israel in 1971 as a 17-year-old, working as a volunteer on Kibbutz Sa'ar in the Galilee near Nahariya. |
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