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Will Smith`s Bar Mitzvah Crashing in Israel

When it comes to Will Smith what`s the first thing you think about? Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Independence Day, Hitch and other such entertainment-based items. The last thing that would probably cross your mind on the other hand, would probably be the Holy Land. That`s right, Will Smith and wife Jada visited Israel this past weekend, and the two learned quite a few things of the controversy-filled land. They visited the Yitzhak Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, and watched a video about the former prime ministers life and leadership, and even managed to crash a bar mitzvah while visiting the Wailing Wall.

It was the usual tour of the Holy Land for actor Will Smith: stay at the King David hotel, visit the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Wailing Wall, and crash a bar mitzvah. Taking a page from "Wedding Crashers" the fresh prince dropped in on the ceremony for Atir Cohen, 13, whose bar mitzvah was being held at Jerusalem`s Western Wall. "At first I didn`t know who it was," Atir said when his reading from the Torah was interrupted by shouts by girls who were pushing against the barrier separating men from women at the holy site to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood star.

The actor compensated for the interruption by shaking hands with the bar mitzvah boy and posing for a picture with him. Surrounded by a security detail, Smith approached the wall and put a note in the cracks in keeping with tradition. He then accompanied his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, on a tour of an excavated tunnel alongside the wall with Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch.