Bar mitzvah boy gets surprise gift
He never got an invitation and he certainly didn’t RSVP, but that didn’t stop Will Smith from crashing Atir Cohen’s bar mitzvah at Jerusalem’s Western Wall.
Cohen, 13, was deep into his Torah reading Thursday when he heard shouting and saw girls pushing against the barrier separating men from women at the holy site to catch a glimpse of the Hollywood superstar.
“At first I didn’t know who it was,” Cohen said. Smith compensated for the interruption by shaking the bar mitzvah boy’s hand 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.
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