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Comedian Jerry Seinfeld touring Jerusalem's Old City on Friday. (Reuters)
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American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld in Israel to promote new movie
By The Associated Press
Tags: Bee Movie, Shimon Peres 

American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld arrived in Israel on Friday in the first stop on a world tour to promote his new animated film Bee Movie.

It was the 53-year-old's second visit to the country. He volunteered on a kibbutz in northern Israel in 1970.

Seinfeld met with President Shimon Peres and then toured Jerusalem's Old City near the Western Wall, part of the Temple Mount complex which is Jews' holiest site, and made a stop at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and museum.
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"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 the President's Residence in Jerusalem.

Seinfeld explained 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."

Seinfeld also gave Peres an explanation of computer animation.

The DreamWorks-Paramount flick that Seinfeld co-wrote and co-produced debuted November 2 and has been in first or second place among top hits in U.S. theaters since, bringing in $94 million.

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  1.   come on Jerry, support your people! 19:58  |  don 23/11/07
  2.   Don from Toronto -- You have to be kidding 21:02  |  FZ 23/11/07
  3.   Terrorism by boredom. 21:13  |  Andreas 23/11/07
  4.   He is there to promote a movie 21:36  |  Ahmed 23/11/07
  5.   He is the most overrated Comedian 22:05  |  He is NOT funny 23/11/07
  6.   seinfeld 22:36  |  dani.a 23/11/07
  7.   jerry`s monetary contributions to Israel 22:40  |  abel 23/11/07
  8.   he`s no woody allan 22:54  |  david 23/11/07
  9.   No. 5 Correct 23:32  |  Steve 23/11/07
  10.   "Think of the consequences" 23:48  |  Ky 23/11/07
  11.   Finally Peres Does His Job ! 23:52  |  Yoram 23/11/07
  12.   What`s the big fus 00:01  |  Sam 24/11/07
  13.   TSK 00:41  |  Todd B 24/11/07
  14.   FZ in Edinborough - YOU have got to be kidding 01:55  |  KT 24/11/07
  15.   FZ # 2 03:38  |  Philippe 24/11/07
  16.   Sam # 12 03:40  |  Philippe 24/11/07
  17.   Phillipe No. fifteen 04:52  |  Steve 24/11/07
  18.   I applaud Jerry for actually marrying a Jewish woman! 05:43  |  Zionist 24/11/07
  19.   NO. 18 Jewish wife . . little jewi boys 06:39  |  abel 24/11/07
  20.   Steve # 17 07:09  |  Philippe 24/11/07
  21.   fz 2 13:43  |  realism 24/11/07
  22.   Jerry Seinfield is an awsome guy and comedian 15:52  |  Mark B. 24/11/07
  23.   would larry david get same reception?? 17:42  |  ROB OF MELBOURNE AUS 24/11/07
  24.   #5 Seinfeld not funny 17:43  |  Tamar 24/11/07
  25.   Response to KT: Anti-Semitism in the West 18:32  |  FZ in Edinburgh 24/11/07
  26.   Why doesn`t he contribute? 18:39  |  Steve 24/11/07
  27.   ENOUGH ALREADY 18:47  |  Pat 24/11/07
  28.   Re: Why doesn`t he contribute? 20:14  |  Obvious 24/11/07
  29.   FZ # 25 20:46  |  Philippe 24/11/07
  30.   Jerry is a Jew 23:16  |  Ari 24/11/07
  31.   Seinfelds mama... 01:49  |  Fortune 25/11/07
  32.   Is he Arab? 01:55  |  Mark 25/11/07
  33.   Jerry is here 02:01  |  Zevulun 25/11/07
  34.   Larry and Jerry 02:02  |  sweis Melbourne 27/11/07
  35.   Re #8 Woody Allen is neither anti-Israel nor anti-Jewish 10:36  |  DJStahl 30/11/07
  36.   # 24 Tamar no laughs no giggles no humor from Jerry 15:51  |  Petra 04/02/08
  37.   Many non Israeli Jews contributed. Not Jerry. 16:01  |  Petra 04/02/08
  38.   He`s not Arab 04:23  |  Avi 05/04/08
  39.   Proud to know 13:35  |  H.G. 13/06/08
  40.   the man only been there twice in his whole life! 03:20  |  ayad 20/02/09
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