Jerry Seinfeld visited Israel this past week as part of his movie “Bee Movie” promotion. The trip to the Holy Land got so much hype it rivaled news of key upcoming Middle East talks.
The Jewish comedian visited Israel for the first time since 1971. When he was 15 years old he volunteered in a Kibbutz helping to grow Bananas.
Seinfeld got to meet both Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He also visited places such as Holocaust Museum Yad Va’Shem and Historical Massada Mountain.
Newspapers devoted nearly full-pages to his trip. And references to his humor crept into serious items in the news. “Yada, yada, yada,” said TV political analyst Amnon Abramovitz Sunday about the Mideast meeting called by President Bush, quoting one of the best-known phrases from Seinfeld’s TV show.
Seinfeld was surprised by the reception received and said it is quite a contrast to what he experienced during his last trip to Israel.
“I would be in the fields, and nobody wanted my autograph and nobody wanted to take their picture with me,” he told reporters in Tel Aviv. “They just let me hack away at those banana leaves, and no, I didn’t meet the prime minister even once.”
Jerry Seinfeld Press Conference
Seinfeld Meets Israeli President Shimon Peres:
Jerry Seinfeld interview in Chanel 10:
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