Leonardo DiCaprio’s Bodyguards Arrested in Israel

Movie star Leonardo DiCaprio is visiting Israel with his girlfriend Bar Rafaeli and has run into some issues with photographers:

Israeli Police arrested two members of Leonardo DiCaprio’s security team after they clashed with photographers during a visit to a holy site in Jerusalem on Monday.

"Two of his [DiCaprio's] security guards were arrested by police after being involved in a fight that broke out," Israel Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told local newspaper Haaretz. "They are being questioned."

DiCaprio, 32, and his girlfriend, model Bar Refaeli, 21, were taking a private tour of the Western Wall tunnels, next to Judaism’s holiest site, the Western Wall, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Haaretz reports.

According to Rosenfeld, a crowd of photographers was waiting outside the tunnels for the couple to emerge when the trouble occurred.

DiCaprio was photographed with his head down and face obscured by a black hat, surrounded by guards amid the melee. The couple were bundled into a waiting white van, which sped from the area.

"They also visited the Yad Vashem [Holocaust memorial] museum, which was closed off to other visitors," Eran Swissa, a journalist for Israeli newspaper Maariv, tells PEOPLE. "Herds of photographers tried to take photos but the couple didn’t let them."

Refaeli’s mother Tsipi said in a statement, "We are saddened [by] this incident and [that] instead of … being proud of the fact that Leo came to see the Jewish heritage the photographers are dealing with unimportant issues. In spite of that, we are having a wonderful time and so is Leo." Read the rest of the Article Here

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